Navigation and history of science: autopsy to submarine Kursk. Survival previsions were not sufficient

• Main Author: Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Asociación Para el Progreso de la Biomedicina 2018
• Subjects: Kursk; submarine; explosion; rescue; confinement; poisoning; burnings; drowning; survival; Medicine; R; Science; Q; Barents Sea; Kola Peninsula; Murmansk; Norway; Oscar II; kola peninsula; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.19230/jonnpr.2134; https://doaj.org/article/a11e8cae6e544710b8ed8392895776d0

On August 12, 2000, Saturday, a Russian submarine of the Oscar II class, the K-141 Kursk, sank in the Barents Sea, while sailing as part of the "Summer-X Exercise" manoeuvres. The Kursk was a giant double-hulled submarine, with nine sealed compartments, considered impossible to be sunk. Du...