The Kursk Disaster - What is your theory?

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by baggygreen

well then, where did the damaged US sub go?

It'd have to be repaired somewhere, and isnt pretty much every US naval base able to be seen by civilians - not to mention any aircraft flyovers etc...

As I understand it, the US came as clean as possible about the Memphis, but the situation with Toledo is less certain. A submarine is mostly submerged and damage can easily be concealed if it is underwater. If the submarine managed to limp from a collision all the way to back to a port, it is in no immediate danger of sinking. IF there was a collision, my move as the USN would have been to just keep the collided sub mostly submerged until there's a chance to quietly move it into a drydock when interest dies down.