Salvage divers resumed Saturday the operation to recover bodies from the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine despite poor weather on the surface of the Barents Sea, Northern Fleet command said.

The K-141 Kursk submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 155-metre hull were to be placed vertically at the spot where it sank, it would have stuck out above the water's surface like a 14-storey ...

In the absence of a large-scale conflict for the submarine to display its qualities, the Kursk tragedy remains one of the main events for which the Oscar II class is known. In August 2000 ...

A Russian diver entered the Kursk nuclear submarine for the first time Wednesday ... should find at least seven bodies in the eighth compartment. Normally, an officer, two first mates, a second ...

In August 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, sinking with 118 crew aboard. Caused by a hydrogen peroxide-fueled torpedo ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

The tragedy has echoes of the sinking of the Kursk submarine in ... a former commander of a nuclear submarine, said authorities have managed to extract only four bodies from the vessel which ...

It meant that there was no punishment of Northern Fleet officers for criminal negligence over the Kursk disaster. An official investigation found that two explosions had wrecked the submarine ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...