Discussion
Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000
Klaster_1: Clickbait title, there are no haunting photos besides maybe one of crew member notes. Still upvoted anyway, the world needs to know about all Putins' crimes, including how poorly Kursk rescue was handled, prioritizing "face" over human lives. The same hubris that later cost lives in Nord Ost and Beslan.
ahhhhnoooo: I found several photos haunting.
infecto: Found it pretty haunting myself. You could pick a different descriptive word but haunting fits.
pavel_lishin: Reading a note written by a sailor, in the dark, by feel, estimating his changes to be 10%, certainly felt haunting to me.
jeffrallen: [delayed]
vrosas: One of the most interest facts about this disaster is that if the submarine was standing on its tail straight up, its nose would be sticking 150ft OUT of the water it sunk in.
thedanbob: And yet even in that shallow of water the pressure would have been around 10 atm. It's amazing how dangerous something as mundane as water can be.
lencastre: nothing but respect for water
jvuygbbkuurx: That is an absolute unit. The photos at the end with people inside the wreck put it in perspective.
fusslo: The description of the survivors last hours is horrifying.
ge96: Damn that's crazy seeing Putin back in 2000
brookst: I found the story and photos entirely haunting. Those sailers had no chance.
tokai: The survivors possibly had a change if Russia had accepted the offer for help from the Norwegian rescue divers right away.
FridayoLeary: The story depresses me a little. One of the greatest engineering marvels in history, destroyed by stereotypical Russian negligence, incompetence and corruption and more then 100 lives lost in the process. The Soviets for all their many sins were at least capable of building incredible things, the protections on the nuclear reactor held up, for example, preventing a massive environmental catastrophe.
giraffe_lady: It's stereotypical now but I remember at the time this was taken as a kind of confirmation that russia had been coasting on and also neglecting a lot of the soviet-era infrastructure. It's hard to reflect back now but in 2000 the soviet collapse was recent memory and the role and effectiveness of its successor was an open question, internationally.I do remember that in the 90s the "russia understanders" were split into two camps: now that russia is free of the shackles of communism it will step into its destiny as supreme global superpower vs the soviet system was actually quite effective at large scale mundane infrastructure & logistics in a way the russian federation isn't.By 2000 the weight of evidence was already fairly strong for the second view but this disaster, and especially their response to it, really settled the matter. This is how I remember feeling about it all anyway.
Gagarin1917: Russia had roughly half the population as compared to the Soviet Union. There’s just no way they could have ever competed on the global stage the same way.
mitthrowaway2: If one took the view that communism was holding back roughly half of their their potential, then it would have been a reasonable prediction.
