 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Norwegian seismic institute graphs show explosions detected by three monitoring stations from the area where the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank August 12, 2000. The institute detected a small first explosion, followed by a much larger one 2.15 seconds later, at right. click to open  |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Lydia Ponarina, the mother of Andrei Ponarin, a lieutenant aboard the stricken Kursk nuclear-powered submarine, waits on a bus after travelling by train to the north Russian port of Murmansk, August 19, 2000. A British rescue team is due to launch a last-ditch attempt on Saturday to save the crew of the Kursk, which has been stuck on the floor of the Arctic Barents Sea for almost a week. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A Russian woman lights a candle for the seaman aboard the damaged nuclear submarine Kursk during a service in the Svyato-Nikolsky cathedral in the north Russian port of Murmansk August 19, 2000. British rescuers on Saturday were within sight of the area where the Russian submarine had sunk a week ago but the Russian navy said the 118 crew aboard were most likely dead by now. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: An unidentified Russian woman believer prays as she lights a candle at St. Nicholas church in the Barents Sea port of Murmansk Sunday, Aug. 20, 2000. Russian officials said Saturday that most of the crew of the crippled submarine Kursk was likely killed in the first minutes after the accident. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Galina Solovey, a relative of the Kursk nuclear submarine captain Gennady Lyachin, wipes off tears after arriving in the city of Murmansk August 20, 2000. Norwegian rescuers on Sunday found the escape hatch on the Russian submarine lying on the Arctic seabed was damaged, jeopardising attempts to get inside the sub, now thought to be a mass grave for the 118 crew. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A Russian marine officer helps the father of a sailor from the Kursk submarine exit a bus after arriving in Murmansk August 20, 2000. Norwegian divers on Sunday found the escape hatch on the Russian submarine lying on the Arctic seabed was damaged, jeopardising attempts to get inside the sub, now thought to be a mass grave for the 118 crew. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A Russian mother, whose son serves on the doomed nuclear submarine Kursk, shouts at the head of the government commission Ilya Klebanov during a meeting by family members and officials at Severomorsk naval base August 18, 2000. Weeping women hurled abuse at a panel of officials claiming their husbands and sons were sitting trapped in a tin for the paltry payment of 50 dollars. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: A woman prays for the sake of Russian sailors trapped at the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine, outside Christ the Saviour cathedral in Moscow, August 20, 2000. A Norwegian robot camera showed on Sunday that the escape hatch of the submarine was so damaged that a British rescue mini-sub was unlikely to be able to dock. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to academician Igor Spassky, constructor general of Rubin sea equipment construction bureau August 20, 2000. Putin said on Sunday the rescue operation in the Barents Sea would continue to "the last moment" in the hope someone may yet be saved from the sunken submarine Kursk. click to open |
 | Sunken Russian "Kursk" Submarine: Norwegian divers test the equipment on board MV Seaway Eagle in the Barents Sea, before diving down to the crippled Russian submarin Kursk, Sunday Aug. 20, 2000. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said the escape hatch on the submarine was so badly damaged that it was unlikely a British mini-submarine could latch on. He said hopes of entering the submarine now focused on the Norwegian divers. click to open |
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