TV prog, "Kursk:Submarine in troubled waters"

Konovalov · 08-11-07, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Steel_Tomb

It was good, putting forward some strong evidence that she was hit by a Mk48 fish.

Christ, is every submarine that ever sunk the victim of an enemy torpedo and a massive cover-up now? It's bad enough that Ed Offley is raking in the dough from Scorpion Down. It's even worse that this sort of stuff slithers into the mainstream so quickly.

It just seems to be human nature to love a wacky conspiracy theory.

Safe-Keeper · 08-11-07, 10:13 AM

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Christ, is every submarine that ever sunk the victim of an enemy torpedo and a massive cover-up now?

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It just seems to be human nature to love a wacky conspiracy theory.

Absolutely. It's an interesting thing, really, to read about them and consider which accidents and catastrophies become conspiracy theories ('cause after all, you can build a conspiracy theory off any larger event - just mystify the coincidences and things that at first sight look strange). Wikipedia has an article on it, which I'll get back to when their technical problems are solved.

Steel_Tomb · 08-11-07, 03:17 PM

Woah lol, I'm not even following all this "conspiracy" stuff. I was just pointing out what the tv prog said. I believe the same as Kap, that a fish went hot in the tube and detonated the unstable propellant in the other fish causing a flash fire which in turn killed most of the crew. The only thing I find off is the perfect circular hole in the side, but its far from proving that a US fish sank her.

Kapitan · 08-11-07, 04:05 PM

what wasnt pointed out and what alot of people do not know is the following:

During the loading of one of the 65-76 torpedos one of them became detached from its cradle and slammed down onto the pier, the torpedo went on anyway, there was no way of checking for internal damage and the submarine was already late in joining the exercise.

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Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Woah lol, I'm not even following all this "conspiracy" stuff. I was just pointing out what the tv prog said. I believe the same as Kap, that a fish went hot in the tube and detonated the unstable propellant in the other fish causing a flash fire which in turn killed most of the crew. The only thing I find off is the perfect circular hole in the side, but its far from proving that a US fish sank her. __________________ _______________________________________________ System Spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz \| 4Gb Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC-2 6400 RAM \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640mb PCI-E \| Creative X-fi sound card \| 250Gb HDD \| *Rest In Peace Dave, you will be missed.*

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Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,132 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	what wasnt pointed out and what alot of people do not know is the following: During the loading of one of the 65-76 torpedos one of them became detached from its cradle and slammed down onto the pier, the torpedo went on anyway, there was no way of checking for internal damage and the submarine was already late in joining the exercise. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/