On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk mysteriously disappeared during a training exercise in the Barents Sea after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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.

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