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Originally Posted by CCIP
Alright, details beginning to emerge, the cause is still unclear beyond a fire extinguishing system failure.
The boat was on sea trials and had 208 people on board, most of whom were civilian (with only 81 being military personnel).
The boat has not officially been named, but is most likely the Akula-class Nerpa, which would be a match since she'd be likely to be on sea trials now - the boat had been recently working up as part of her sale to the Indian navy, to which she was due to be transferred in 2009.
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I knew I had read about the Nerpa before..
It was mentioned in an article on the SubSim main page couple of days ago..
http://indiatoday.digitaltoday.in/in...id=31&Itemid=1