60 Tons Too Heavy to Live

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🔒 Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/DARKSEAS and use code DARKSEAS to protect your privacy! 🙌 Captain First Rank Nikolay Suvorov couldn't ignore the facts; his submarine, K-429, was in dry dock. His usual crew was on leave. The boat was unfit for combat. And yet, the order was clear: sail anyway. The Soviet Navy had no room for objections. Hastily, he patched together a skeleton crew, many of whom had never set foot aboard K-429. Neither crew nor boat was ready, but that didn't matter. On the evening of June 23, 1983, Suvorov gave the order to dive. But something was wrong. He hadn't given the command to set the diving watch. Systems weren't aligned. Men weren't at their stations. Still, he pushed forward. Confused, unsure, and under pressure, he gave one final order: "Flood auxiliary ballast tanks." Then came the panic. The sub, overloaded by more than 60 tons, began to sink… fast. Suvorov paled. He knew all escape hatches had been welded shut. Worse, he knew what was in the launch tubes: Live nuclear warheads. The Nuclear Sub Disaster They Caused... Twice