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msxyz · 05-12-10, 02:03 PM

The infamous K-159 shortly before sinking

http://makettinfo.hu/forum/upload_20...75.1_K-159.jpg

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/85AD4.../0/k159_32.jpg

The four rusted tanks were floaters needed to keep the boat from sinking. One of them ruptured (or broke free) during a transfer dooming the vessel and its crew.

Look at the state of the outer skin! How could the Russian navvy let this giant piece of rust containaing two fully fueled nuclear reactors stay in the water and rot for years!

Not to mention the skeleton crew attending to the boat. I can only imagine the dreadful conditions aboard this wreck.

05-12-10, 02:03 PM	#5
msxyz Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 218 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	The infamous K-159 shortly before sinking http://makettinfo.hu/forum/upload_20...75.1_K-159.jpg http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/85AD4.../0/k159_32.jpg The four rusted tanks were floaters needed to keep the boat from sinking. One of them ruptured (or broke free) during a transfer dooming the vessel and its crew. Look at the state of the outer skin! How could the Russian navvy let this giant piece of rust containaing two fully fueled nuclear reactors stay in the water and rot for years! Not to mention the skeleton crew attending to the boat. I can only imagine the dreadful conditions aboard this wreck. __________________ ...Sinking deeper into the cold, dark oceans of life Last edited by msxyz; 05-12-10 at 03:10 PM.