At one time I had to serve in the famous 19th Division, nuclear missile submarines in the Gadzhievo - in the same, which was attributed to the lost 219- I. And the story of the terrible accident I know, so to speak, at first hand - from the surviving crew of the submarine.
October 3, 1986 the submarine ' K-219 ' was in the autonomous navigation for about 30 days. After surfacing in the conversation and to determine the nuclear-powered ship from periscope depth at the position left. And suddenly, in one of the missile silos on the left side drastically water gushed. The boat rocked explosion - outboard pressure crushed the rocket casing. The water began to come into the bay. Three people - the commander of the missile warhead and two sailors were killed immediately, rocketeer.
The submarine was declared an emergency alarm, it has emerged. Despite the sealing of the compartments and the struggle for survival on a boat through the damaged pipe line and still spreading poisonous fog light orange color of the components of rocket fuel, caught in the 4th missile compartment. Many sailors were poisoned by vapors of nitrogen oxides. In some places the level of pollution exceeds the limit value of 2-3 thousands of times.
Print Font Size Send druguBylo several attempts to drain the fuel components and pump seawater missile silos. But the main specialists in rocket men were killed in the explosion. The task was left undone... The crew fought to save the ship for about fourteen hours, when the 6- th compartment to the control room received a report: a 5 -m compartment fire, there was a black -brown smoke. Fifty minutes after the emergency protection of reactor worked. Expansion of the lattice ( CR) that obscure the reactor were automatically drop down. However, this did not happen, they are ' stuck '.
On the drive motors compensating gratings have been reported power. Since that time, worked as an emergency protection and it became clear that supply power to the CD drive fails, all clearly understand the most important thing - silence reactor. KR had to manually drop the special handle - such possibility has been provided constructive. Seaman Sergei Preminin, which lowered the CD remained in the reactor compartment of all - the pressure bulkhead door is locked. He went down with the boat....
When it became clear that the nuclear-powered ship can not be saved, even in tow he did not get to the nearest base, the crew abandoned ship. The struggle for survival lasted 77 hours 38 minutes. The last boat left its commander, Captain 2nd Rank Igor Britain - October 6, at 11. 00. And in the 11. 03 ' K-219 ... Then the staff brought in Gadzhievo, about a year and all divers hauled in for questioning by the Specials. Accident terribly secretive, with a crew made to sign non-disclosure. The Soviet press was silent, despite Gorbachev's glasnost advertised.
But ... In the U.S. newspapers are sometimes infiltrated by some sensational details. For example, that in the first half of October 1986 the U.S. Navy nuclear submarine ' Augusta ' while on patrol in the Atlantic was the casing is damaged in a collision with a submerged object and arrived at the home port of New London (Conn. ) for repairs in dry dock. It was noted that the inspection revealed damage to the bow of the hull and sonar dome. To repair the submarine drew a strictly limited number of specialist private firm.
U.S. Navy officials declined to comment on the incident, which is not surprising. The American ' Augusta ' patrolled the ocean right in the navigation area of the Soviet ' K-219 '. But this is almost a complete repeat of the situation with the repair of the U.S. nuclear submarine ' Groton ' after death ' Kursk '! . Damaged ' Groton ', they say, ' on one leg ' got to Norway one day after the death of ' Kursk '.
Here's what to me then, in the late '80s, it was possible to hear from crew members who survived the first 219. When, after the explosion of the boat surfaced, and the position was otdraen upper conning-tower hatch, a senior assistant commander Captain 3rd Rank Sergey Vladimirov found along the left side, just above the damage missile silos and further aft, a double furrow, cast metallic luster. Drew attention to her and other members of the crew. Where does it come from?.
Fresh tracks on the metal could be the only result of external influence. And it is clear that because of him and there was a failure in the rocket shaft. The fact that such ' external factor ' was a foreign submarine - of course, just a version of. As in the case of the ' Kursk '. It is still version. Perhaps time will unfamiliar to us the documents and facts, as so often.
And yet - the heroism of. Sorry for the lyrics and pathos. Though what could be here to apologize... has an amazing feat of property committed by one person, then he ceases to belong to its creator. The feat becomes a national asset, increasing the spiritual wealth of the people who are on a par with the values of cultural, scientific, economic. And do not be shy lofty words. We're not used to them in recent years. Voluntary or involuntary neglect cases are not so harmless, heroic as it may seem: it is tantamount to embezzlement of national wealth. Respecting the people of his country can not allow that. Glory to the submariners, and Soviet and Russian!.
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