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...There are three things Nebraskans are proud of, the submariners told me: the University of Nebraska football team, the corn the state grows, and this Trident submarine. I believe it. The state has a Big Red Sub Club that routinely flies Nebraska crewmen back to the state for parades and football games. When I was in Nebraska this weekend, I was given an honorary commission in the Nebraska Admirals Association, signed by Nebraska governor Mike Johanns, for writing a book on "their" sub. I was also named an honorary "commander" in the Big Red Sub Club...
Besides the newsworthy revelation of Lieut. Captain Dimitri Kolesnikov's dying message to his wife recovered last week from the husk of the sunken submarine Kursk--that 23 of the 118 crewmen had survived in an isolated chamber for a while, in contradiction to claims by Russian officials that all had perished within minutes of the accident--there was the matter of writing the message in the first place...
...same afternoon that Israel's helicopters were shelling near Arafat's compound, suicidal terrorists on a small boat crept up to an American destroyer refueling in Yemen, stood at attention and set off an explosion that killed 17 crewmen. Later came a less effective attack on the British embassy in Yemen, along with fears that a new terrorist jihad could threaten innocents around the world...
...that only went into service in 1995. Yet it is the Kursk that languishes 350 feet down on the ocean floor, stricken after what the Russian navy calls a "big and serious collision." And despite a dramatic rescue effort, Moscow rates its chances of rescuing the 100-odd crewmen aboard as "not very high...
...dispatched to Charleston, where it sank twice on earlier trips, killing 13 men, including one of its sponsors, Horace L. Hunley, for whom it was named. It was nicknamed the "Peripatetic Coffin," a fitting name, as it was only 4 ft. wide and just over 4 ft. high, crewmen had to sit hunched single file, each operating a crank attached to the propeller. Top speed was 4 knots. The captain navigated by peering out fist-size portholes in the forward conning tower. The Hunley had air for 2 1/2 hours, though it rarely stayed down for more than 25 minutes...