Russian submarine question?

Question

What did go wrong with the russian sub which was never rescued?

i m not talking abt "hunt for the red october". i want to know abt the real life sub which went deep and could not surface (or something likewise).

again wrong number..there was no explosion..

Answer 1

See the following web site for several articles dealing with the Submsarine name the "Kursk"

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/submarine/


"Beaver said the conflicting Russian accounts about what caused the submarine to plummet 350 feet may have been due to a simple translation misunderstanding.

It was reported that the Russians had said initially that the vessel had been in collision with another ship, a theory later changed to damage having been caused by an explosion either from a malfunctioning torpedo or an undetected World War II bomb or mine.

But, said Beaver, the word "collision" in Russian is similar to "impact" and therefore the initial report could have ben referring to a "collision" with a weapon, not a ship.

Beaver, who trains the British Army in "disaster management", said another possibility for the submarine's foundering could be that it was hit by one of its own loosed-off torpedos.

"They take their war games seriously and a malfunctioning torpedo could have come back and hit the vessel," he said. "It has happened before." "

Answer 2

They think there was an explosion, possibly by a torpedo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk