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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Sub-standard back-up for submarine rescue

Collins class submarineAmost every Australian submariner knows the story of "the note". Many can recite passages from it and some might even be haunted by it.

They will tell you that it was written in freezing darkness at the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000 by Russian Navy Lieutenant-Captain Dmitry Kolesnikov.

Trapped inside his crippled submarine, Kursk, and fast running out of air, the sailor scrawled a message to his wife and to the outside world.

"It's too dark to write here, but I will try to do it blindly," he wrote. "It looks like there is no chance - 10 to 20 per cent. Here is a list of personnel who are in the ninth section and trying to get out. Hello to everyone, do not despair."

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1 comment:

  1. Pete2/2/09 04:30

    Not a good safety record. The omissions are typical of Australia's built it-modify it-delay it aquisitions history.

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