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Question: What about a collision? Maybe a Norwegian or United States submarine was involved?
Let's just say that no member of the Psi Squad has mentioned seeing any collision of any kind.
What we did see was severe damage - as from internal explosion, and I personally specified twisting and damage to torpedo tubes - IN the submarine. Force blowing OUTward.
None of us 'saw' any U.S. sub anywhere within 20 miles (which is close enough to Monitor) nor NATO surface ship either. We DID 'see', or I did, a Norwegian sub much closer. I have always formed a habit of coming in from overhead during a remote view - so can see what else is in the area.
However, if the Norwegians would be nuts to fire on a nuke Soviet sub testing a new torpedo - how much MORE stupid would it be for a U.S. sub or a UK sub? We did not want not need an International Incident in the Barents - ???
From 'inside' sources which I have = and value - we now know more about the damage itself - and it could NOT be easily caused by a collision, and probably not a torpedo attack. Apparently their aerial was still up as they'd just received an order to fire a torpedo.
Sonar from sub and surface vessels would have alerted Kursk to any other sub in area - certainly. They aren't blind down there - not to mention sidescan sonar on the surface vessels (theirs, ours, NATO) could and would report something in the area, too. There is NO such thing as a 'stealth submarine'.
This was a nuclear submarine undergoing war games exercises under the eye of the fleet and admirals. There is little to no chance that we, you or the Norwegians would poke a nose into the middle of that - we cruise around just 'looking'. Kursk was not there singing the 'Volga Boatmen' - they'd just shot a missile and were ordered to shoot the new torpedo - then they just disappeared and the two explosions were heard. Explosions underwater do not sound like collisions.
What we 'saw' was a 'misfire'. There could be 'debris' on the sea bottom, yes, which came off the Kursk. The 'blast' I saw would probably have blown off some of the prow and railings, which I specified as being in disastrous shape. It did not blow the whole top off - nor the whole bottom - this thing is BIG - and there was some trapped air, just like in Kennedy's car in the water at Chappaquiddick Bridge, which kept Mary Jo Kopechne alive for some time. A boat this big has to have air bubbles in some areas, especially toward the stern. So a few sailors survived, in those 'bubbles'.
If you listened to the Jeff Rense Show, or the Archived Show,
I also specified that she was at 'under 100 feet' when this occurred.
Apparently this new torpedo cannot be shot from deep submergence.