2000: Rescuers race to save stricken Kursk 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 to have been involved in an accident during a naval exercise in the Arctic Circle, which caused it to sink.
An official Russian inquiry would later conclude that no one was to blame for the disaster, which it said was caused by a faulty torpedo. But relatives of the sailors claimed the result was a whitewash.
All 118 people on board died.
大象传媒 Archive: This 大象传媒 News report was originally broadcast on 14 August 2000.