The tragic sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in 2000 remains one of the most mysterious and haunting naval ...

Eight years after the Kursk tragedy, the Russian Navy faced another submarine nightmare when a Freon gas leak on the new ...

According to an earlier account, navy officials were unaware that the submarine was in trouble until 11 p.m., when the Kursk failed to make a scheduled radio contact.

Kursk Crew Sent No Signals After Sinking, Putin Says. September 7, 2000. By Robert G. Kaiser. NEW YORK, Sept. 7 -- The 118 sailors aboard the submarine Kursk probably died quickly after it sank, ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 15 -- Russian rescuers battling Arctic storms failed today in an attempt to reach survivors aboard the disabled submarine Kursk, but a second effort began tonight as the oxygen supply ...

All 118 members of the nuclear submarine Kursk's crew died in an explosion on August 12, 2000. Here, the crew members stand on the ship deck during the naval parade in Severomorsk, Russia, July 30, ...

Empathy For Kursk Crew. ... damaged submarine such as the Kursk. ... McLees and the rest of the crew waited 240 feet below the surface for more than a day-and-a-half to be rescued, ...

Relatives In Kursk, The City, Await News. August 16, 2000 / 2:53 PM EDT / AP At the moment when she heard that her son's submarine was trapped on the sea floor, ...

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 rescue effort, which ...

The Kursk was a nuclear-powered missile-carrying submarine of project 949A Antei, which the Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering Rubin in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg) developed at ...

A retired Russian admiral has alleged that the 2000 Kursk submarine disaster was caused by a collision with a NATO sub, an unproven claim that defies the official conclusion that the catastrophe ...

In August, 2000, the Kursk, a giant nuclear submarine, went out to sea off the coast of Murmansk with an undertrained crew and a load of torpedoes that were past their expiration date.