- Title: RUSSIA: FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE KURSK SUBMARINE DISASTER
- Date: 12th August 2005
- Summary: (BN10) MOSCOW, RUSSIA (AUGUST 12, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF THE KURSK MONUMENT IN MOSCOW, NAVAL GUARD OF HONOUR AT MONUMENT BEFORE START OF COMMEMORATION CEREMONY 0.05 2. WIDE OF NAVAL GUARD OF HONOUR 0.11 3. VARIOUS OF RELATIVES OF THE KURSK SUBMARINE SAILORS STANDING IN LINE, SOME WITH FLOWERS 0.21 4. CLOSE OF YOUNG GIRLS, DAUGHTERS OF SOME OF THE KURSK SUBMARINE SAILORS 0.27 5. VARIOUS OF NAVAL GUARD OF HONOUR CARRYING FLORAL WREATH TO KURSK MONUMENT 0.41 6. CLOSE-UP OF WOMAN STANDING WITH RELATIVES OF KURSK SUBMARINE VICTIMS 0.45 7. SLV WREATH BEING CARRIED TO MONUMENT 0.55 8. CLOSE OF OLD WOMAN LOOKING ON AS WREATH IS CARRIED TO KURSK MONUMENT 0.58 9. VARIOUS OF NAVAL GUARD LAYING WREATH 1.13 10. CLOSE OF PART OF THE KURSK MONUMENT 1.17 12. RELATIVES OF THE KURSK SAILORS LOOK ON 13. VARIOUS OF RELATIVES OF KURSK SAILORS LAYING FLOWERS AT FOOT OF MONUMENT/ OLD WOMAN MAKING SIGN OF THECROSS AFTER LAYING FLOWERS 1.37 14. SLV NAVAL OFFICERS LAYING FLOWERS AND SALUTING 1.42 15. SLV SOFIA LEONOVA, MOTHER OF ONE OF THE KURSK SAILORS, DMITRY LEONOV SPEAKING TO REPORTERS 1.46 16. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SOFIA LEONOVA, MOTHER OF ONE OF THE KURSK SAILORS, DMITRY LEONOV SAYING: "I think back then they (the Russian navy) did everything they could, but couldn't save the sailors. But they should have told us immediately (that there was no hope) and should not have prolonged the wait, the accident happened on August 12, and only on August 24th we were told that all of them (Kursk sailors) had died. Then we wouldn't have had such a long period of tension and worry." 2.08 17. SLV ADMIRAL VLADIMIR MASORIN, HEAD OF RUSSIAN NAVY HEADQUARTERS, WITH REPORTERS 2.13 18. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) ADMIRAL VLADIMIR MASORIN, HEAD OF RUSSIAN NAVY HEADQUARTERS SAYING: "Back then (in August 2000) it was clear that we did not have modern equipment; since then we have bought everything that we could have possibly bought, and I want to emphasise that those equipment which we have on our rescue ships today, they are called Venom, they have been procured from England and their operators have been trained in England and they are much better than the Scorpio." 2.41 19. CLOSE OF INSCRIPTION AT BASE OF THE KURSK MONUMENT 2.44 20. SLV NAVAL HONOUR GUARD STANDING NEXT TO WREATH PLACED AT MONUMENT 2.49 (W2) BARENTS SEA, RUSSIA (FILE - JULY 2000) (REUTERS) 21. TOP VIEW OF THE KURSK SUBMARINE ABOVE WATER AND STEAMING AHEAD 2.56 22. AERIALS OF KURSK CREW ON TOP OF SUBMARINE DURING ROUTINE CHECK 3.00 23. VARIOUS OF BLUE CROSS / RUSSIAN NAVAL FLAG WITH OFFICERS AND CREW OF KURSK 3.23 (W2) BARENTS SEA, RUSSIA (FILE - JULY 2001) (REUTERS) (MUTE AUDIO) 24. VARIOUS UNDERWATER VIEWS OF THE WRECK OF THE KURSK SUBMARINE 3.44 (W2) MURMANSK AREA, RUSSIA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 2001) (REUTERS) 25. VARIOUS OF THE HULK OF THE KURKS SUBMARINE BEING CARRIED TO DRY DOCK 4.05 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOSCOW, BARENTS SEA, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: Russia marks the fifth anniversary of the Kursk
submarine disaster.
Russia on Friday (August 12, 2005) marked the fifth
anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk nuclear powered
submarine in which 118 sailors, the entire crew of the
vessel, perished at the bottom of the Barents Sea.
Commemoration ceremonies were held in Moscow, St.
Petersburg and the home base of the Kursk submarine in
Vidyayevo.
In Moscow, a Naval guard of honour laid a memorial
wreath at the foot of the Kursk monument in a sombre
ceremony attended by some of the relatives of the Kursk
sailors.
"I think back then they (the Russian navy) did
everything they could, but couldn't save the sailors. But
they should have told us immediately (that there was no
hope) and should not have prolonged the wait, they accident
happened on August 12, and only on August 24 we were told
that all of them (Kursk sailors) had died. Then we wouldn't
have had such a long period of tension and worry," said
Sofia Leonova, whose sone Dmitry died in the disaster.
118 Russian sailors died after the Kursk submarine sank
to the bottom of the Barents Sea during naval exercises on
August 12, 2000. An official investigation and final report
into Russia's worst naval accident blamed the sinking on a
faulty torpedo that exploded in its chamber
The Kursk anniversary comes days after the dramatic
rescue of a Russian mini-submarine in the Pacific.
On Friday, one senior Russian naval officer, said they
navy now possessed modern rescue equipment.
"Back then (in August 2000) it was clear that we did
not have modern equipment; since then we have bought
everything that we could have possibly bought, and I want
to emphasise that those equipment which we have on our
rescue ships today, they are called Venom, they have been
procured from England and their operators have been trained
in England and they are much better that the Scropio," said
Admiral Vladimir Masorin, chief of the Russian navy
headquarters.
Five years after the Kursk disaster, the Russian naval
command were severely criticised when it became apparent
that the navy did not possess the modern rescue equipment
needed to deal with submarine accidents.
A British naval rescue team played a key role is saving
the lives of the seven sailors aboard the mini-submarine
trapped in the depths of the Pacific.
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