Today, the “ Komsomolets” still rest on the seabed at a depth of 1,680 meters (5,512 feet) some 180 km south of the Bear Island. The Mike-class program was cancelled submarine number two was never completed. 25 freezing cold survivors were lifted out of the water from on of the half-floating raft. 41 diedĪt 18.29, the Soviet cargo ship “ Aleksandr Khloystsov” came to rescue. The men in the water were hanging on to the raft. Only one raft was available, but was hardly floating.Īt 17.08 the submarine sank to the deep. The life rafts that were lowered were too far away for the crew to reach. By 17.00 buoyancy and stability were lost and the crew started to evacuate to life rafts of which there were too few. The submarine lost power and started to run out of compressed air. Causing several short circuits in the electrical system, the emergency systems to the single-nuclear reactor onboard were triggered, shutting down the reactor. Attempts by the crew to extinguish the flames were futile. The fire started in the seventh compartment in the rear of the submarine, behind the reactor-compartment.ġ1 minutes later the vessel surfaced. Such diving tests can’t be done in Russia’s part of the Barents Sea because it’s to shallow. The waters west from North Cape in the south to the Bear Island in the north.
Like today, such diving tests take place in the waters where the Barents Sea meets the Norwegian Sea, where the depths go from 200 meters to several thousand meters. “ Komsomolets” had then been out for week on a voyage testing the submarine’s deep diving capabilities. In the morning that day, sailing at a depth of 160 meters, the crew was looking forward to coming home, meeting their families at the base in Zapadnaya Litsa on the Barents Sea coast of the Kola Peninsula. South of Bear Island Google Map / Barents Observer It all ended in catastrophe on April 7th 1989. It could have been a game-changer in the Cold War, giving the Soviet Union an advantage in nuclear deterrence. With the K-278 - “ Komosomolets” - Soviet submarine designers believed they had built a weapon diving deeper than SOSUS could detect, bringing a load of deadly plutonium warheads close to the east coast of the United States without possibly being stopped.Ī sister vessel of “ Komosomolets” was already under construction at the yard in Severodvinsk. At a time when the SOSUS system in the Norwegian Sea was successful in detecting and tracking noisy Soviet subs sailing out to the North Atlantic from its bases on the Kola Peninsula.
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President Ronald Reagan was talking Star Wars and how to intercept incoming Soviet missiles with laser from space. With a hull of titanium, the sub could dive to 1,000 meters (3,280 feet), several hundred meters deeper than operational depth for other attack submarines.įor Kremlin, this particular submarine was a proud. The “ Komsomolets” was likely the most unique submarine ever built for the Soviet navy.
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