 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Norwegian deep-sea divers inspect the escape hatch of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine in this Russian RTR television still August 20, 2000. The divers hammered on the hull of the submarine and tried to open its outer escape hatch in the first underwater footage of the rescue operation. click to open  |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Norwegian deep-sea divers inspect the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine in this Russian RTR television still August 20, 2000. The divers hammered on the hull of the submarine and tried to open its outer escape hatch in the first underwater footage of the rescue operation. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A Norwegian deep-sea diver's hand (R) inspects a piece of the hull of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine in this Russian RTR television still August 20, 2000. The divers hammered on the hull of the submarine and tried to open its outer escape hatch in the first underwater footage of the rescue operation. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A television still from Russian RTR channel shows the escape hatch on the sunken Kursk submarine August 20, 2000. A Norwegian robot camera showed a hatch so damaged that a British rescue mini-sub was unlikely to be able to dock with it. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Norwegian deep-sea divers inspect the escape hatch of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine in this still from Russia's RTR television August 20, 2000. Images of the divers hammering on the sub's hull and trying to open its outer escape hatch were seen in the first underwater footage of the rescue operation. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Norwegian divers open the hatch of the doomed Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in a still from video aboard the divers' ship MV Seaway Eagle August 21, 2000. Norwegian divers said on Monday they believed all of the 118 crew of Russia's stricken Kursk submarine had died in an accident nine days ago, after they penetrated the vessel and found it flooded. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A photo montage of the front pages of some major daily Russian newspapers with coverage of the Kursk nuclear submarine trapped on the ocean floor, Monday, Aug. 21, 2000. Strong criticism continued in the Russian media and among many ordinary people of the way the government has handled the rescue operation. Much of the criticism centered on President Vladimir Putin because he did not interrupt his summer vacation and return to Moscow when the disaster broke. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Russian woman Valentina Ivanova lights candles as she prays for sailors of the sunken nuclear submarine in a church in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 21, 2000. Rescue teams abandoned efforts Monday to find survivors in a sunken Russian submarine after determining that all of the 118 crew members had perished in the flooded vessel. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Yekaterina Koreiko, aunt of Sergei Dudko, an officer on the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine, wipes tears as she lines up with other relatives to get tickets on a plane to Murmansk at Vnukovo airport in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 21, 2000. Some 80 relatives of the sunken submarine took a special flight provided by the Russian government from Moscow to Murmansk on Monday. Rescue teams abandoned efforts Monday to find survivors in a sunken Russian submarine after determining that all of the 118 crew members had perished in the flooded vessel. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: An unidentified relative of a sailor of the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine cries before departing for Murmansk at Vnukovo airport in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 21, 2000. Some 80 relatives of the crew of the sunken submarine took a special flight provided by the Russian government from Moscow to Murmansk on Monday. Rescue teams abandoned efforts Monday to find survivors in a sunken Russian submarine after determining that all of the 118 crew members had perished in the flooded vessel. click to open |
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