The 2000 sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk was a national tragedy that claimed the lives of all 118 sailors aboard. -The disaster began when a faulty practice torpedo exploded, triggering ...

Eight years after the Kursk tragedy, the Russian Navy faced another submarine nightmare when a Freon gas leak on the new Akula-class submarine K-152 Nerpa killed 20 sailors and civilians during sea ...

MOSCOW (CNN) -- Russian officials say a rescue effort is "well under way" in an attempt to save the crew of a nuclear submarine stranded at the bottom of the Barents Sea.

The observatory had “recently recorded a number of relatively weak seismic signals from sources in the area of the Barents Sea where the Russian submarine Kursk sank on Aug. 12, 2000,” NORSAR ...

Aug. 15 -- Chayim Sheynin can feel the Kursk crew members’ pain as they await help in a submarine stranded hundreds of feet deep in freezing Arctic waters. He’s been there — literally. It ...

In August 2000, the Kursk submarine sunk in the Barents Sea with the loss of all 118 aboard. An inquiry found that a torpedo had exploded, detonating all the others.

Klebanov, who leads the government commission investigating the Aug. 12 accident, has focused on the theory that the Kursk was hit by a foreign submarine, but has provided no proof.

Officials have three theories on what sent the Kursk to thebottom of the Barents Sea in August — a collision with a foreign submarine, a World War Two mine or an initial explosion on board which ...

The ships practiced missions in interaction with shipborne Ka-27 anti-submarine warfare helicopters from the Northern Fleet’s combined aviation corps ...