Unless you are in one of the compartments with food, you ve been without nourishment all this time. You are cold, weak. Probably in the dark. The former submariner need not finish the thought. Icy water creeps up the bulkheads.
Darkness closes in as the batteries die.
In essence, the Russian sailors those who may have survived whatever explosion or collision caused the nuclear submarine Kursk to take its deadly dive were slowly being buried alive. That was before he descended into the world of journalism. He is now the special projects editor at the Miami Herald in Florida. The former Rogue Valley resident is also an old friend. We worked on newspapers together in Grants Pass and Anchorage before he headed south with his family.