The 14 sailors who died when a fire erupted aboard a top secret russian nuclear submarine last week prevented a planetary catastrophe a top naval officer said at their funeral accor. Even nuclear submarines have batteries as a backup. The fire was in the battery compartment.
The accident occurred very close to the russian coast reportedly as losharik was docking with the bs 64. Three were lost with all hands the two from the united states navy 129 and 99 lives lost and one from the russian navy 118 lives lost and these are also the three largest losses of life in a submarine. The soviet navy has lost five one of which sank twice the russian navy two and the united states navy usn two.
Nine nuclear submarines have sunk either by accident or scuttling. Project 949a антей atomnaya podvodnaya lodka kursk apl kursk sank in an accident on 12 august 2000 in the barents sea during the first major russian naval exercise in more than ten years and all 118 personnel on board were killed the crews of nearby ships felt the initial explosion and a second much larger explosion yet. The nuclear powered oscar class submarine kursk russian.
News what we know about russia s deadly nuclear sub fire so far. The accident is far from the first deadly submarine accident to take place in russia where such tragedies have a long history. Many soviet naval officers felt that the ships were not fit for combat.
It suffered from poor workmanship and was accident prone from the beginning. The boat was pushed through production and rushed through testing. In the late 1950s the leaders of the soviet union were determined to catch up with the united states and began to build a nuclear submarine fleet.
