[arrogantsob]

My boy was assigned to the USS Ohio at that time and I was very upset that the disaster happened. And watching the futile efforts which would have been extremely difficult for us, if possible at all, was frustrating.

Geo-political issues aside, humanity trumps them on occasion.

[hanamizu]

And watching the futile efforts which would have been extremely difficult for us

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The Kursk wasn’t all that deep—not thousands of feet deep, but hundreds—say the length of a football field. It doesn’t take much depth to make rescue difficult or impossible.