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Originally Posted by dyna mo
Those poor souls. Rip.
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I'm starting to remember now... once they finally relented and allowed limited help - it revolved around the Kursks "escape hatch" (subs all have them) and a special diving bell designed to attach to it to extract crew.
The Russians wouldn't let the other crews with the proper equipment anywhere near the Kursk, had to keep staging attempts to transfer it all to them so they could do it themselves... then in addition to becoming the usual Russian clusterfuck, there were issues because of all the non standard sized hatches etc... they couldn't attach it to the hatch on the Kursk and on and on it went until the SOS taps slowed down to nothing, grew more faint and finally quit.
And no, Russians were not mad at the USA. They were pissed at the ineptitude of their own government, the constant lies and the fact that they basically allowed 118 Russian sailors to die for no reason at all.
Kind of like how they assaulted the moscow theater in the Nord Ost debacle with gas to knock everyone out, then dragged out all the weak, exhausted, dehydrated and starved victims onto the street (away from the bombs) and many died on laying on the sidewalk because they didn't have the fucking brains to stage emergency services to deal with it. That was fucking sad. They actually killed all the terrorists and no bombs were detonated... and all these people died laying on the sidewalk because they didn't get proper medical attention (or any at all).
But yeah... Russia competent... America incompetent. Got it.