From BBC online:
Reports have emerged of an incident on board a submarine in the Russian Far East in which one sailor was killed.
Russian naval officials say the man died after a release of pressure from a ruptured pipe, but other reports speak of an explosion in a cooling tank.
NTV television said the vessel, which was docked on the Kamchatka peninsula, may be a K-211 class nuclear submarine.
The date of the incident is not clear, although the funeral of the man, Dmitry Koval, was reportedly held on Friday.
A commission has been set up to investigate the incident.
Pacific Fleet spokesman Capt Igor Dygalo said the submarine suffered minor damage and was still operational.
NTV said two more sailors were injured.
The TV also suggested Koval might have used his body to put out a fire on the submarine, thus preventing a torpedo explosion which would have caused more casualties.
There have been a number of serious incidents involving Russia’s aging submarine fleet in recent years, most notably the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine in August 2000 which led to the deaths of 118 sailors.
Nine others died three years later when a K-159 submarine was caught in a storm in the Barents Sea on its way to port for decommissioning.
By: dionis - 29th November 2004 at 19:41
must have been in the early 60ties…
By: ink - 21st November 2004 at 17:51
Yes, that aging Oscar II was the problem… it was the date it was layed and the date it entered service that created a faulty torpedo… Who wrote that?
Probably a low level propaganda officer in the Ministry of Truth
By: Severodvinsk - 20th November 2004 at 09:31
Oh, yes Kursk was certainly built somewhere in the ’60ties…
By: Arabella-Cox - 20th November 2004 at 01:37
Russian naval officials say the man died after a release of pressure from a ruptured pipe, but other reports speak of an explosion in a cooling tank.
As no fuel or explosive compounds are normally stored in a cooling tank I would assume that it was a pressure problem… and the joints of a pipe are more likely to be a weak spot than a tank.
There have been a number of serious incidents involving Russia’s aging submarine fleet in recent years, most notably the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine in August 2000 which led to the deaths of 118 sailors.
Yes, that aging Oscar II was the problem… it was the date it was layed and the date it entered service that created a faulty torpedo… Who wrote that?
Nine others died three years later when a K-159 submarine was caught in a storm in the Barents Sea on its way to port for decommissioning.
Yes, the first ever recorded loss of Sailors in a storm… and the K-159 was in such good condition it was being taken to a port to be… decomissioned. Wonder why that sank in a storm?
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November 19, 2004 at 9:35 pm