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The Kursk sank on 12 August 2000, during a training exercise in the Barents Sea. All 118 people on board were lost.
Two massive explosions ripped through the hull and although many of the crew were killed, at least 23 men survived for sometime.
Because of cutbacks in the Russian Fleet, its search and rescue vehicles were not equipped to help the stranded survivors. And by the time British and Norwegian deep-sea divers had reached the submarine, all aboard had perished.
Initially the Russian government claimed that an US submarine had collided with the Kursk, and that it had even been torpedoed. These claims later turned out to be unfounded, when scientists who examined the wreckage determined that the explosions were caused by faulty torpedoes.
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