![]() John Mills (front) in In Which We Serve, one of his many nautical outings on screen. Of the 118-man crew, 23 survived the explosions and took refuge in the ninth compartment, in the stern of the vessel. ![]() Two minutes later, although the nuclear reactor shut down safely, elevated temperatures from the fire detonated as many as seven more torpedos in an explosion that registered 4.2 on the Richter scale as far afield as Alaska, blowing a hole in the bow of the vessel. The blast instantly killed all crew members in the front two compartments of the submarine, which was sent to the bottom of the sea. Stop reading now if you want to avoid real-life spoilers. In August 2000, during a Russian naval exercise in the Barents Sea, north of Murmansk, a faulty torpedo exploded in the Kursk – a nuclear-powered submarine named after the Russian city that also lent its name to the largest tank battle in history. Hot on the heels of HBO’s five-parter about the Chernobyl catastrophe comes another story of a tragic accident sparked by cost-cutting and exacerbated by political prevarication.
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