Word: kursk
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...graphics team weaves art and words with such skill and clarity that engineers could almost use their images to raise a sunken sub or keep the Tower of Pisa from falling. This year TIME has won eight Malofiej Infographics Awards, including a rare Gold prize for "Raising the Kursk." The Society for News Design, which gives the prizes, cited chief Jackson Dykman and his staff...
Russia What Sank the Sub Investigators said that an obsolete torpedo had probably caused the explosion that sank the submarine Kursk in August 2000. Russia's prosecutor general Vladimir Ustinov said there was no evidence of foreign craft in the vicinity of the submarine. It was the first public acknowledgment that the sinking had not been caused by a collision with another vessel, but investigators said they would release their final conclusions only...
...SEMYON MAISTERMAN/AP-ITAR TASS Russians celebrate raising the wreck of the Kursk...
...RUSSIA The Return of the Kursk More than a year after explosions sank the nuclear submarine Kursk, killing all 118 of its crew, the wreck returned to port. Raised from 108 m down on the Barents Sea floor by a Dutch salvage company, the 155-m, 18,000-ton vessel was clamped to a giant barge for its homecoming. Experts will examine the Kursk in dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, to establish how the submarine foundered. Officials are taking no chances that radiation from the sub?s two 190-megawatt nuclear reactors will leak out or that...
...nine years of our existence we have been able to dole out only 850,000 rubles ($29,000) to help our 120 charges. That's less than one Kursk family was assigned on the President's orders. Of course, the Kursk sailors deserved that, but the Komsomolets sailors did not go to the sea fishing, either. They went where their country sent them to do their duty. Now, we have only 180,00 rubles ($6,120) left. Neither the state, nor any other sources of support are available to us. I think we'll pay out whatever we have left...