I remember the Kursk. When the Russians waited until they knew the crew was dead before allowing Western help. The Finnish rescue diver connected to the stricken sub at the “escape port hatch” but when opened, the Kursk was full up with sea water and all aboard dead.
*I remember the Kursk.*
“The Command* was a good movie on the Kursk. Sad. A torpedo man requested the mission aborted due to temperatures reaching a dangerous level. It was denied. People covering their butts got them all killed. Then the higher-ups wouldn’t acknowledge it. An 89 year-old Max Von Sydow played the Russian higher-up who did a poor job explaining it to the angry families of the victims.
The moral? Don’t put your life in someone else’s hands. I joined the Air Force. Planes needed to be in a protected area, far from any ‘action’. Let the dummies who join for the adventure get themselves killed. Pat Tillman was one.