Don't know if this has been posted before, but anyways the brief outline below describes an alternative theory to what happend...
Film: Kursk: a Submarine in Troubled Waters
Koursk: un sous-marin en eaux troubles, which aired on 7 January 2005 on French TV channel France 2, alleged that Kursk sank because of an exchange triggered by the collision with the US submarine USS Toledo. According to Carré, the Kursk was performing tests of a new torpedo called Shkval and the tests were being observed by two US submarines on duty in the region, the USS Toledo and USS Memphis.
At some point, the Kursk and the Toledo collided, damaging the latter (video footage shows long gashes carved in the side of the Kursk) and, in order to prevent the Kursk firing upon the Toledo (allegedly presaged by the audible opening of the Kursk's torpedo tubes), the Memphis fired a Mark 48 torpedo into the Russian submarine.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian..._the_explosion
here's the documentary...the french version...
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8W40ONL5
english version...
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?doc...852276&q=kursk
russian subtitles
or dl from -
http://www.avaxhome.ru/misc_and_web/..._reupload.html
Kursk Conspiracy
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