On Saturday 17th June, I idly and randomly flipped through a list of films to watch on Amazon Prime and quickly decided that ‘Kursk - The Last Mission’ looked interesting. A few minutes into the film, I realised it was based on actual events, which I vaguely recollect from watching the news 23 years ago. By the end of the film, I was knocked out; it is powerful and deeply moving and documents the sinking of the Russian submarine The Kursk, during a routine naval exercise, due to a chemically unstable torpedo, plus the subsequent failed rescue mission, executed first by the Russian navy and then with help from the British and Norwegians.
Wife and I watched the Kursk film on Saturday ourselves, distressing.
The explosion was caused by the mishandling of an experimental supercavitating torpedo powered by concentrated hydrogen peroxide, a highly dangerous and unstable compound.
The "can't do/don't care" attitude of the Soviet staff officers reminded us of something...
Nobody is going to rescue you from 12,000+ feet deep. Unfortunately they might as well be on Pluto.
I wasn't even aware they had sent people that deep. I assumed it was all remote drones with cameras. Quite an engineering achievement really that worked at all. Obviously there are massive risks of which these people were aware.
Great piece. Will now find the film to watch.
Wife and I watched the Kursk film on Saturday ourselves, distressing.
The explosion was caused by the mishandling of an experimental supercavitating torpedo powered by concentrated hydrogen peroxide, a highly dangerous and unstable compound.
The "can't do/don't care" attitude of the Soviet staff officers reminded us of something...
That's interesting. Maybe my choice of film to watch wasn't so random after all. Was it being promoted this weekend I wonder?
Yes, my missus thinks that, too!
Nobody is going to rescue you from 12,000+ feet deep. Unfortunately they might as well be on Pluto.
I wasn't even aware they had sent people that deep. I assumed it was all remote drones with cameras. Quite an engineering achievement really that worked at all. Obviously there are massive risks of which these people were aware.
In fact AFAIK the record depth reached by a crewed submersible is 10,908 metres (35,787 ft).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_Challenger#:~:text=Deepsea%20Challenger%20(DCV%201)%20is,deepest%2Dknown%20point%20on%20Earth.
Wow! Amazing stuff... 16,000psi... damn