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Morning Rundown: Israel reports 'fierce battles' with Hamas inside Gaza, heavily armed man found dead at amusement park, and justice at last for Salem's witches? a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Brannon, Robert (13 April 2009). Russian Civil-Military Relations. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishers. p.140. ISBN 978-0-7546-7591-4. Archived from the original on 8 May 2016 . Retrieved 25 November 2015. Don Lynch and Ken Marschall (1992). Titanic: An Illustrated History. Hyperion. pp.136, 139. ISBN 1562829181. Ultra-conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk, a day before it was confirmed that the five-passenger crew had perished, outright blamed “wokeness” for their demise. Despite the many lapses in procedures and equipment, Ustinov said no charges would be filed because the disaster was caused by a technical malfunction and blame could not be placed on specific individuals. He said that all of the sailors had died within eight hours and none of them could have been rescued in the time available. At a news conference announcing the end of the official inquiry, he absolved the torpedo's manufacturer of any fault. "Those who designed the torpedo couldn't foresee the possibility of its explosion." He also said there was no evidence that the torpedo had been damaged when it was loaded onto Kursk. [83]

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Not only did the media coverage of the Titan dwarf news of Hunter Biden’s plea deal on tax charges, according to these tinfoil-hat conservatives, but the revelation that the sub was lost was perfectly timed to distract from the GOP releasing IRS whistleblower testimony in the Hunter tax investigation. The hull number painted on the ship was 401, the same as its yard number at Harland and Wolff, and its Board of Trade number was 131,428. Yet even if one of its numbers had read “NO POPE,” there weren’t any Catholic workers at Harland and Wolff for it to upset. The company had driven its Catholic employees away in the late 1800s, and “by the twentieth century, Harland and Wolff had a reputation for only employing Protestants,” writes Annie Caulfield in Irish Blood, English Heart, Ulster Fry. When the nuclear reactors automatically shut down, the air-purification system would have shut down, emergency power would be limited, and the crew would soon have been in complete darkness and experiencing falling temperatures. [22] :88–92 Death of survivors [ edit ] In any event, the Russian rescue teams were poorly equipped and badly organised, while foreign teams and equipment were far away and not given permission to assist. [6] :143–145 [65] It is unlikely that any rescue by either Russian or foreign specialists could have arrived and reached the sub in time to rescue any survivors. [104] Forensic examination [ edit ] Twenty-four men were assigned to compartments six through nine towards the rear of the boat. [97] Of that number, 23 survived the two blasts and gathered in the small ninth compartment, which had an escape hatch. [11] Captain-lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikov, head of the turbine unit in the seventh department, and one of three surviving officers of that rank, apparently took charge. [98] Emergency lighting was normally powered by batteries located in the first compartment which had been destroyed in the explosion, but the ninth compartment contained a number of independent emergency lights which apparently worked.Maintenance records revealed that the 65-76 "Kit" practice torpedo carried by Kursk came from a batch of 10 manufactured in 1990, six of which were rejected due to faulty welding. An investigation revealed that because the torpedoes were not intended to carry warheads, the welds had not been inspected as carefully as welds on torpedoes carrying warheads. When salvage crews finally recovered the remains of the torpedo and the launch tube, analysis determined that both bore signs of distortion and heat damage that were consistent with an explosion near the middle of the torpedo, very close to an essential welded joint. The official conclusion of the commission was that a faulty weld had led to the explosion. [71] Escape capsule inaccessible [ edit ] a b c d e f g "Russian Sub Has 'Terrifying Hole' ". 18 August 2000. Archived from the original on 1 January 2011 . Retrieved 31 January 2014.

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An Ordinary Execution (2007, ISBN 978-2070776528), a book by French writer Marc Dugain revolves partly around the Kursk events. This confirmed the worst-case scenario, that Titan had imploded under the estimated 400 bar of pressure from the sea around it.

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Unsurprisingly, these kinds of unhinged and exhaustively disproven theories have turned into a major headache for those who have studied the sunken passenger ship for decades. HOARDING BY BANKS A CAUSE OF PANIC; This, Stewart Browne Says, Is the Objection to Aldrich Plan, Which Does Not Stop It". The New York Times. 18 October 1911. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 15 January 2023. Russian Navy officials imposed specific constraints that restricted the Norwegian divers to work on the stern of the boat, specifically the escape hatch over compartment nine and an air-control valve connected to the rescue trunk. [16] The Norwegian deep-sea divers protested against the restrictions, which they believed impeded their rescue operations. [15] a b Mark Chirnside (2006). " Olympic & Titanic – An Analysis of the Robin Gardiner Conspiracy Theory" (PDF) . Retrieved 4 October 2008. Vorhies was among several to note that in 2012, OceanGate announced that David de Rothschild, an adventurer and heir to the family's banking fortune, had joined the company's board of directors.

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Any responsible organisation would have another submersible ready in under an hour’s notice to go down and see what’s happened. Several other netizens also took to the internet to state the same. They noted that recovering the victims' bodies would be impossible as they would have turned into “mini particles.” A few tweets read: A fire began in one of Titanic 's coal bunkers approximately 10 days prior to the ship's departure, and continued to burn for several days into the voyage. [24] [25] Fires occurred frequently on board steamships due to spontaneous combustion of the coal. [26] The fires had to be extinguished with fire hoses, by moving the coal on top to another bunker and by removing the burning coal and feeding it into the furnace. [27] This event has led some authors to theorize that the fire exacerbated the effects of the iceberg collision, by reducing the structural integrity of the hull and a critical bulkhead. [28] [29]On 26 July 2002, almost two years later, the government commission and Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov announced that the hydrogen peroxide fuel in the dummy torpedo inside the fourth torpedo launcher set off the initial explosion that sank Kursk. [13] Secret report [ edit ]

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JMS Engineering study. "RMS Titanic: Complete Hull Failure Following Collision with Iceberg" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2013 . Retrieved 31 December 2012. On Sunday 20 August, the Norwegians lowered a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to the submarine. They found that the first 18m (59ft) section of the boat was a mass of twisted metal and debris. [16]British comedian David Baddiel has slammed a social media user’s conspiracy theory relating to the missing Titanic submarine. And, of course, Johnson once again had to get in the mix—this time claiming it was part of a “ psy-op,” which has increasingly become part of the right-wing media’s lexicon since “Chief Twit” Elon Musk began using the term to complain about stories he doesn’t like. A cadre of other MAGA influencers also insisted that this was a “ distraction to protect Hunter” and an attempt to “ hide emerging evidence” of the president’s corruption, including a Senate GOP digital strategist who said the situation was proof this “is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history.” (While Republican lawmaker Dan Crenshaw didn’t go as far as claiming a Hunter-related cover-up, he still outright blamed the White House for the sub’s destruction and loss of life.) Layah Helipern, an author and YouTuber, wrote to her 614,300 fans, and said that she believed “The submarine thing” was “suspicious”. Many other posts expressed how terrifying it would be to be trapped under the sea in total darkness.The fear and panic an event like this can stoke have also bonded communities online, who have been tirelessly playing out every probable cause and horrifying scenario.