Norwegian deep-sea divers struggled yesterday to open an escape hatch on the crippled nuclear submarine Kursk, but hope seemed virtually gone of finding any of the sailors alive after nine days at … ...

On Aug. 12, 2000 as a result of a catastrophe during a Russian naval exercise in the Barents Sea, the K-141 Kursk submarine sank to a depth of 108 meters. K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear ...