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  Speaker 1: In two thousand, a handwritten note was discovered at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the ocean up in the Arctic Circle, and
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  Speaker 1: it revealed this absolutely horrifying true story. But before we
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the morning of August twelfth,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand, thirty three of Russia's best naval warships stopped
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  Speaker 1: inside of a particular section of the Barren Sea. The
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  Speaker 1: Barren See is this eight hundred miles stretch of freezing
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  Speaker 1: water up in the Arctic Circle just northwest of Russia,
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  Speaker 1: and these thirty three ships were in this stretch of
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  Speaker 1: water for this huge military training exercise. Basically, they were
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  Speaker 1: going to run through some wargame scenarios where, for example,
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  Speaker 1: one ship would pretend to be an enemy combatant and
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  Speaker 1: the other ships would work on walking onto that ship
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  Speaker 1: and firing at them. But of course they wouldn't use
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  Speaker 1: real missiles or torpedoes, they.
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  Speaker 2: Would use DUTs that didn't actually explode.
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  Speaker 1: And so around nine am, the man who was in
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  Speaker 1: charge of this entire operation, his name was Admiral Popov,
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  Speaker 1: and he was actually on board one of these.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty three ships.
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  Speaker 1: He authorized one of the submarines that was out there
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  Speaker 1: to shoot two of their dummy torpedoes at a target
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  Speaker 1: an enemy combatant, which was actually just one of the
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  Speaker 1: other ships. And so as soon as he did this,
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  Speaker 1: he was authorizing the start of this multi day long exercise.
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  Speaker 2: And so all day and all night.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing these wargame scenarios, and by the following morning,
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  Speaker 1: so twenty four hours into this exercise, Admiral Popov stepped
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  Speaker 1: away from the action to speak with Russian reporters on
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  Speaker 1: the phone, and during this interview he tells them that
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  Speaker 1: so far the training exercise is going exactly to plan
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  Speaker 1: and that it looks like it will ultimately be a
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  Speaker 1: huge success. However, there was a problem At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: Admiral Popov is giving his remarks to the reporters about
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  Speaker 1: how well this exercise is going. The family members of
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  Speaker 1: some of the crews that were out there as part
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  Speaker 1: of this exercise, they heard a rumor that the exercise
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  Speaker 1: was not going to plan, that in fact, something bad
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  Speaker 1: had happened to one of the ships, but none of
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  Speaker 1: the family members had any.
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  Speaker 2: More information beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: Even though this rumor was just that a rumor, the
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  Speaker 1: family members of these crews that are participating in this exercise,
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  Speaker 1: they naturally became very worried, and so they all that
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  Speaker 1: morning began calling the naval base where the thirty three
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  Speaker 1: ships had originated, asking for more information. And the phone
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  Speaker 1: operator on the base that was receiving all of these
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  Speaker 1: calls that morning, at first was telling these family members, but, no,
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  Speaker 1: nothing's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't heard anything. There's no issues.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually this phone operator let slip that in fact,
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  Speaker 1: they too had heard the rumor that something bad had happened,
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  Speaker 1: and they think it actually might be true. But when
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  Speaker 1: this family member who heard this pressured the phone operator
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  Speaker 1: for more information, the operator clammed up and.
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  Speaker 2: Said, you know, I can't give you anything.
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  Speaker 1: Else, and so at that point, the family member hung
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  Speaker 1: up the phone and called the media and told them
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  Speaker 1: what was going on, and the media, as soon as
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  Speaker 1: they had the story, they went right to Admiral Popov
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  Speaker 1: and they said, hey, can you address this rumor?
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  Speaker 2: And he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: He did not respond to any of the media's inquiries,
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  Speaker 1: and in a weird way, that was kind of reassuring
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  Speaker 1: to the family members of these crews, because they're thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if Admiral Popov is just kind of ignoring
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  Speaker 1: this rumor and he's staying out there out on the
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  Speaker 1: barren Sea, still conducting this exercise, then certainly nothing bad
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  Speaker 1: could have happened, right, And so for the rest of
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  Speaker 1: that day Sunday, the family members of these crews and
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  Speaker 1: the media just kind of did nothing because there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: anything else to do besides wait to see if there
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  Speaker 1: was any new news coming out of this exercise. And
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  Speaker 1: the following day, on Monday the fourteenth, so forty eight
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  Speaker 1: hours after the start of this training exercise, there would
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  Speaker 1: be news. Russian officials would go on TV and they
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  Speaker 1: would address the rumor by saying, well, yeah, it is true,
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  Speaker 1: something did happen out during this exercise. The Cursk, which
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  Speaker 1: was the name of one of the submarines that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the thirty three ships that was part of
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  Speaker 1: this exercise. They experienced some minor technical difficulties that forced
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  Speaker 1: them to ground their vessel at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: barren seat. But don't worry. This is normal. We're in
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  Speaker 1: touch with them through the radio. Everybody is fine. We
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  Speaker 1: are pumping air and power into their submarine, and before
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  Speaker 1: long we will have them back on the surface.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing to worry about now.
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  Speaker 1: Naturally, the family members of the Kursk crew specifically, they
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  Speaker 1: panicked when they heard this because even though the government
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  Speaker 1: is acting totally confident that everything is fine, they did
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  Speaker 1: not feel confident that everything was fine. Their family members
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  Speaker 1: are trapped on the bottom of the ocean. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, they remembered the Cursk. The actual submarine
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  Speaker 1: was a very special and very safe submarine. The Curk
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  Speaker 1: was quite literally Russia's best ship. They had spared no
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  Speaker 1: expense on it. It was extremely expensive and it was massive.
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  Speaker 1: It was bigger than two football fields put together, and
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  Speaker 1: it was constructed out of this very specialized, highly reinforced
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  Speaker 1: steel that allowed it to take a direct hit from
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  Speaker 1: a torpedo and just keep on going, no problem. It
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  Speaker 1: was also outfitted on the inside with all the latest
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  Speaker 1: and greatest technology, and so if you were going to
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  Speaker 1: be stuck at the bottom of the ocean inside of
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  Speaker 1: a submarine, you would want to be stuck inside of
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  Speaker 1: the cursk. And so the families took solace in that.
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  Speaker 1: But over the next couple of days, despite the government
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  Speaker 1: reassuring everybody in the news that everything was fine, it's
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  Speaker 1: totally minor, We're going to have the curse cup in
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  Speaker 1: no time. Despite all that, the Cursk still had not
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  Speaker 1: been raised to the surface, and the government was not
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  Speaker 1: giving the families or the media any new information. And
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  Speaker 1: so in this kind of void of no real information,
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  Speaker 1: the families began to panic and the media began to speculate.
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  Speaker 1: Did the Cursk really suffer from minor technical difficulties like
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  Speaker 1: the government was saying, or was this something more serious?
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  Speaker 1: This question would be answered on August twenty first, so
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  Speaker 1: nine days after this training exercise had begun, when a
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  Speaker 1: Norwegian dive team they were out there to assist in
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  Speaker 1: the recovery effort, they were able to dive down to
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  Speaker 1: the Cursk and they actually got inside of the submarine
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  Speaker 1: through an escape patch. An escape patch is like this
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  Speaker 1: watertight closet that kind of sits on the outside of
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  Speaker 1: the submarine, and it allows people to go in and
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  Speaker 1: out of the submarine without plotting it. And once these
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  Speaker 1: Norwegian divers got inside of the Cursk and had to
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  Speaker 1: look around, they were totally shocked at what they saw.
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  Speaker 1: While the exact details of what happened inside the Cursk
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  Speaker 1: are still debated today and probably will be for some time,
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  Speaker 1: there is one aspect of the story that is more
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  Speaker 1: or less universally accepted, and that is what happened inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of Compartment number nine.
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  Speaker 1: The Kursk was divided into nine watertight segments called compartments.
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  Speaker 1: Number one was at the front of the submarine, and
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  Speaker 1: then it went two, three, four, all the way down
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  Speaker 1: to nine in the very back of the submarine. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason we know what happened inside of Compartment number
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  Speaker 1: nine is because a twenty seven year old Kersk crew member,
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri Kolestakov, told us. Dmitri was born into a family
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  Speaker 1: of sub mariners. His father was a sub mariner and
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  Speaker 1: his father's father was a sub mariner and Dmitri idolized
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  Speaker 1: them and so growing up that was all he ever
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be, and in the late nineteen nineties his
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  Speaker 1: dream would become a reality when he commissioned as a
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  Speaker 1: naval officer in the Russian Navy and was given orders
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  Speaker 1: to serve on board the Cursk. Four months before this
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  Speaker 1: training exercise out in the Barren Sea, Dmitri met and
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  Speaker 1: very quickly married a high school teacher named Olga, and
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  Speaker 1: right after their wedding, one of the first things he
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  Speaker 1: did is he brought her on board the Cursk for
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  Speaker 1: a tour, and Olga brought along a video camera and
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  Speaker 1: filmed her tour through the ship. And on this video,
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri is all smiles. He's so happy to be leading
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  Speaker 1: her around the ship and introducing her to people and
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  Speaker 1: showing her all the cramp spaces on board the submarine.
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  Speaker 1: It's really obvious that Dmitri was so proud of his job,
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  Speaker 1: not only of his job, but also just so proud
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  Speaker 1: to be sharing this part of his life with his wife.
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  Speaker 1: Fast forward to August twelfth, two thousand and Dmitri, along
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  Speaker 1: with one hundred and seventeen other crew members on board
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  Speaker 1: the Cursk had just arrived at their designated section in
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  Speaker 1: the Barren Sea for this training exercise, and at eleven
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven am, the captain of the Cursk came over
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  Speaker 1: the radio and he told Admiral Popoff, who was not
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  Speaker 1: on the Cursk, he was on a separate ship. He
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  Speaker 1: told the Admiral that the Cursk was about to fire
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  Speaker 1: their two dummy torpedoes. After this call was made, the
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  Speaker 1: men in the first compartment of the Cursk, the very
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  Speaker 1: front of the Cursk, This is where all the torpedoes,
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  Speaker 1: both fake and reel, are stored. They began loading these
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  Speaker 1: two dummy torpedoes. Meanwhile, Dmitri was all the way back
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  Speaker 1: in the seventh compartment, the engine room, that was where
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  Speaker 1: he was stationed. He was actually in charge of everybody
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  Speaker 1: who worked in the seventh compartment. And so as these
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  Speaker 1: two dummy torpedoes are being loaded, Dmitri and his men
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  Speaker 1: there weren't that many of them. They were twisting dials
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  Speaker 1: and pulling levers, when all of a sudden there's this
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  Speaker 1: really loud crashing sound, and then the ship shutters and
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  Speaker 1: then shultz hard to one side, as if someone had
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  Speaker 1: grabbed the front of the submarine and just forced it
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  Speaker 1: to one direction. What Dmitri and the men in the
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  Speaker 1: seventh compartment could not have possibly known was that one
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  Speaker 1: of the real torpedoes in the first compartment had malfunctioned
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  Speaker 1: and it exploded. But because of how well built the
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  Speaker 1: curse was, how strong the exterior walls were, this torpedo,
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  Speaker 1: as advertised, did not puncture through it. It did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of damage and caused a massive fire, but the
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  Speaker 1: sub was not sinking. So back in the seventh compartment,
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri he stands up from being jostled to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and the alarms are going off and everything is totally chaotic.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's asking what's going.
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  Speaker 1: On, and Dmitri he takes charge, and he tells his
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  Speaker 1: men to follow the emergency protocol, which was to seal
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  Speaker 1: the watertight doors of your compartment, and so in this
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  Speaker 1: case he sealed both the doors, one leading to the
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  Speaker 1: sixth compartment and the other leading to the eighth compartment.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of reasons for why they do this,
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  Speaker 1: but in essence, if there's a leak somewhere in the submarine,
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  Speaker 1: by sealing off your compartment, you protect yourself from being flooded.
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  Speaker 1: As Dmitri and his men are stealing these two doors,
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  Speaker 1: they would have begun to see and smell smoke as
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  Speaker 1: it came in through the ventilation ducts because there was
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  Speaker 1: now this uncontrolled fire raging at the front of the submarine.
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  Speaker 1: They also would have felt the submarines suddenly pitch upward
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  Speaker 1: at a very steep angle as the captain of the
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  Speaker 1: Curse desperately tried to surface. But before they could reach
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  Speaker 1: the surface, that uncontained fire reached the other live torpedoes
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  Speaker 1: and it set off this almost instantaneous chain reaction of explosions.
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  Speaker 1: This second collective blast killed virtually everyone in the front
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  Speaker 1: half of the submarine, either the blast itself blew them
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  Speaker 1: apart or once this hole in the front of the submarine,
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  Speaker 1: because the second blast did puncture the walls. Once that
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  Speaker 1: hole was created, all this arctic water began flooding into
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  Speaker 1: the submarine. So if you didn't get killed by the blast,
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  Speaker 1: you very quickly drowned. The only people who survived the
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  Speaker 1: first and second explosions were anyone in the sixth compartment
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  Speaker 1: going backwards, so six, seven, eight, and nine, and so
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  Speaker 1: Dimitri and the other men in the seventh compartment.
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  Speaker 2: They would have been definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Badly shaken up from that second explosion that completely rocked
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  Speaker 1: the submarine and sent them tumbling all over the place,
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  Speaker 1: but they would have been very alive and very aware
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  Speaker 1: of the terrible situation they were in, and so I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine that Demi and the others tried to grab
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  Speaker 1: onto any of the piping or anything they could as
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  Speaker 1: the submarine, because the control tower has been destroyed, just
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  Speaker 1: angled straight down and began creaning downward. At eleven thirty
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  Speaker 1: two am, just four minutes after that initial explosion, the
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  Speaker 1: Cursk slammed nose first into the ocean floor three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty feet below the surface, and then the back
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  Speaker 1: half of the Curse.
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  Speaker 2: Came down to rest.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what happened on board the Cursk
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  Speaker 1: for those first two hours after they hit the ocean floor.
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  Speaker 1: What we do know is they had power, so there
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  Speaker 1: was light inside of the submarine. Also, the air purifiers
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  Speaker 1: were still working, so despite the chemicals and smoke that
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  Speaker 1: was in the air, it was relatively easy to breathe
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  Speaker 1: during those first two hours. We also know that at
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  Speaker 1: some point Dmitri and the other men in his compartment
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  Speaker 1: must have heard banging coming from the sixth compartment, because
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  Speaker 1: remember they had sealed off the doors both to the
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  Speaker 1: eighth and the sixth compartment, and so Dmitri decided to
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  Speaker 1: break emergency protocol and he opened the door to the
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  Speaker 1: sixth compartment to allow any of the survivors that were
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  Speaker 1: banging on the door to come into their compartment. And
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  Speaker 1: when Dmitri and his men opened that door and looked
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  Speaker 1: into the sixth compartment, they would have seen that it
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  Speaker 1: was rapidly flooding and most likely anybody forward of that compartment.
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  Speaker 2: So five four three two one they were already dead.
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  Speaker 2: By one thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri and his men in the seventh compartment and the
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  Speaker 1: other survivors from the sixth compartment, they were forced to
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  Speaker 1: retreat from the seventh over to the eighth compartment and
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  Speaker 1: then finally into the ninth compartment because of flooding. Even
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  Speaker 1: though they had sealed off their watertight doors, the walls
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  Speaker 1: were no longer watertight because this huge explosion had sent
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  Speaker 1: shrapnel flying down the body of the submarine, puncturing holes
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  Speaker 1: in all of the walls, and so.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't matter if you shut your watertight door.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually, as one compartment would fill up, it would begin
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  Speaker 1: leaking through all the cracks in the walls, and so
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri and all of the people he was with, they
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  Speaker 1: would have been very aware of that. And so by
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  Speaker 1: the time they got all the way back to the
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  Speaker 1: ninth compartment, the very back compartment, there was nowhere else
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  Speaker 1: to go. The water was going to eventually reach them,
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  Speaker 1: and they were doomed unless they got rescued or if
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  Speaker 1: they left out of the escape patch. Despite how absolutely
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  Speaker 1: terrifying this situation must have been, Dmitri remained calm. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he was so calm that he pulled out a piece
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  Speaker 1: of paper as he's sitting in this cramped ninth compartment
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  Speaker 1: with these twenty two other men, and he writes the
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  Speaker 1: day and time in the corner, and then he begins
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  Speaker 1: to kind of describe what had happened. He talks about
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  Speaker 1: there being an explosion and he thought he and these
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  Speaker 1: twenty two men were the only survivors, and he says
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  Speaker 1: they're now trapped in the ninth compartment and they have
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  Speaker 1: to wait for rescue. He also talks about how they
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  Speaker 1: had considered going out the escape patch, but apparently it
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  Speaker 1: hadn't worked. After Dimitri wrote this very neat, very legible,
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  Speaker 1: very organized note, he folded it up and put it
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  Speaker 1: in his pocket, and then for the next hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half he sat inside of the ninth compartment with
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  Speaker 1: a twenty two others and the power went out, which
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  Speaker 1: thrust them into absolute pitch darkness, I mean completely black
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  Speaker 1: inside of there, and the temperatures because the power was out,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly began to plummet.
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  Speaker 2: And then the worst part was the water began.
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  Speaker 1: Seeping through the walls, and so Dmitri and the other
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  Speaker 1: men they would have known that it's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of time before this room fills completely with water.
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  Speaker 2: And there is nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 1: And so with the water rising all around them, Dmitri
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  Speaker 1: pulls that paper back out of his pocket and he
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  Speaker 1: adds to the note. And this time his handwriting is
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  Speaker 1: barely legible, and it's because he's probably suffering from hypothermia,
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  Speaker 1: so he's shaking, he can't see what he's writing. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he writes the words I'm writing blind to indicate it's
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  Speaker 1: totally dark in the room. And in this second note,
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  Speaker 1: he leaves on this piece of paper which was dated
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  Speaker 1: and timestamped an hour and a half after the first one,
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  Speaker 1: Dmitri indicates that he does not think he's going to survive.
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  Speaker 1: It's very clear none of them think they're going to survive. Then,
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  Speaker 1: with the remaining space on this piece of paper, Dmitri
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  Speaker 1: writes this very loving and very thoughtful message to his
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  Speaker 1: wife and his family, saying goodbye, and then his final
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  Speaker 1: words on this note are regards to everybody, no need
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  Speaker 1: to despair Klesnikov. After he wrote this second message on
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  Speaker 1: this note, he folded the paper up, put it in
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  Speaker 1: his breast pocket, and then, in total darkness, listening to
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  Speaker 1: the sound of water rushing into the room, he and
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  Speaker 1: the other twenty two damned souls prepared to die. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know how long Dmitri and the other twenty two
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  Speaker 1: men survived in Compartment nine, but experts say the entire
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  Speaker 1: Kursk submarine was completely flooded eight hours after the initial explosion.
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  Speaker 2: One of the most heartbreaking aspects of.
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  Speaker 1: This case is that Dmitri and these twenty two other
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  Speaker 1: men could have potentially been saved if the Russian response
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit more urgent and coordinated. Despite two
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  Speaker 1: of the ship, including the ship that Admiral Popov was
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  Speaker 1: on hearing and feeling the second explosion that the Curk experienced.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing was done about it, it was reported.
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  Speaker 1: But no one really did anything. And then when no
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  Speaker 1: one could get in touch with the Cursk after they
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  Speaker 1: had said they were going to fire those two dummy torpedoes,
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  Speaker 1: everybody else, all the other ships, Admiral Popov, they all
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  Speaker 1: just said, you know what, I'm sure, it's just the
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  Speaker 1: radios and they're fine, and they'll be in touch soon.
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  Speaker 1: And so it wasn't until later that evening when the
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  Speaker 1: Russian Navy even figured out there was a major problem
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  Speaker 1: with the Curk, that the Curk has vanished, and then
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  Speaker 1: it would be several hours before they even got a
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  Speaker 1: rescue submersible in the water down to the Curk. And
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  Speaker 1: then once it was down there, they could not latch
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  Speaker 1: onto the escape patch on the submarine, and so even
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  Speaker 1: if there were survivors inside of the submarine, they would
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: not have been able to exit into this rescue submersible.
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  Speaker 1: And so for days and days the Russians struggled to
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  Speaker 1: try to get inside of the submarine and kept turning
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: down four and aid from Norway from America, from Great Britain,
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  Speaker 1: Norwegian dive team they went down and they were able
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  Speaker 1: inside the submarine, they saw it was completely flooded. There
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: were bodies floating everywhere, and that's when ultimately Dmitri's body
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