a significantly different type of torpedo and failed to include essential steps for testing an air valve. The 7th Division, 1st Submarine Flotilla never inspected Kursks crew's qualifications and readiness to fire HTP torpedoes. Kursks crew had no experience with HTP-powered torpedoes and had not been trained in handling or firing HTP-powered torpedoes. Due to their inexperience and lack of training, compounded by incomplete inspections and oversight, and because the Kursks crew followed faulty instructions when loading the practice torpedo, Ryazantsev believes they set off a chain of events that led to the explosion. Media Books Truscott, Peter (2002), Kursk: Russia's Lost Pride. Simon & Schuster UK. Dunmore, Spencer (2002), Lost Subs: From the "Hunley" to the "Kursk", the Greatest Submarines Ever Lost – And Found. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo. Moore, Robert (2002), A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy. Crown Publishers NY, NY. Weir, Gary E. and Boyne, Walter J. (2003), Rising Tide: The Untold Story Of The Russian Submarines That Fought The Cold War. Basic Books, NY, NY. Flynn, Ramsey (2004), Cry from the Deep: The Sinking of the Kursk, the Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New Russia to the Ultimate Test. Harper Collins. Rear Admiral Mian Zahir Shah (2005) Sea Phoenix: A True Submarine Story. Songs "Travel Is Dangerous", a song from the album Mr Beast by post-rock band Mogwai. Finnish doom metal band Kypck is claimed to have cross-references both to the Battle Of Kursk and the submarine named after the city. "Капитан Колесников" (Captain Kolesnikov) song by a Russian rock band DDT "Icy blackness (Kursk)", a heavy metal song by Armageddon Rev. 16:16 from the album "Sundown on Humanity" "The Kursk" is a song by Matt Elliott (musician) from his album "Drinking Songs" Sequoya's "Barren the Sea", a folk song about the tragedy "Angel 141 (Russian: Ангел 141)" is a song by [AMATORY] from the album "DOOM" (2019) "K-141 Kursk" is a song by heavy metal band Wolf from their album Legions of Bastards Theatre The Kursk – play about the trapped survivors, By Sasha Janowicz. Kursk – a play by playwright Bryony Lavery from the British point of view. Movies Kursk (also known as "The Command", and "Kursk: The Last Mission"). - The film from 2018 follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. By Thomas Vinterberg. Art Kursk,'' a 2004