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3) Fill in the blanks based on what you Listen:
The 12th August 2000, Russia was determined to show that was still a naval power with the biggest military exercises in years in the Barents Sea.
The pride of the Northern Fleet, Russian first class nuclear submarine - the Kursk. For the past four years she __________ under the proud command of Captain Gennady Lyachin.
But late that morning the pride of the fleet was to become the fleet’s _________. Vessels nearby noted two big explosions, two minutes apart. Contact with the Kursk ___________. The ships nearby did nothing.
By the time the Russian public learned the Kursk and her crew – She’d been on the ______ of the sea for two days. The military immediately showed everyone the situation was in control and the men were alive. In truth there was no contact with the crew. Yet this came from the naval commander in chief.
We now know that every last man on board that submarine was already dead and they died long before rescue was even found the vessel. Their families, the Russian people, the rest of the world were been deliberately ________________.
At first they blamed the _________________ World War II mine for blowing up the sub, then they _____________ a foreign vessel had collided with the Kursk.
The Russians repeatedly tried and _______________ to reach the Kursk with outdated _______________ rescue equipment. Yet ________________ pride and fear exposing the truth led naval command to ignore nearest international offers of help.
In Scotland a top team rescue was waited ready with a British submarine rescue craft far better than anything the Russians had. Tom Hearing was the pilot of LI-5.
“As soon as we heard, we were in standby, as soon as we heard the work coming through, there were things been arranged and we were ahead of the game”.
The Russians finally allowed them come to the site 6 days after the Kursk ___________.
“I think as soon as the Kursk went down we assured to many people offering to do anything possible it could”
From Norway the Stout Company was sending a team of commercial divers to the rescue. The Russians had put their ________________ to get to the Kursk down to the bad weather and strong currents. The team from Stout found neither.
“The seabed conditions were excellent for diving 20 meters visibility, favorable current less than half knot, ideal diving conditions, the submarine was upright, lying flat on the seabed, so in my point of view – an easy working environment with our experience technology.”
3) Fill in the blanks based on what you Listen:
The 12th August 2000, Russia was determined to show that was still a naval power with the biggest military exercises in years in the Barents Sea.
The pride of the Northern Fleet, Russian first class nuclear submarine - the Kursk. For the past four years she __________ under the proud command of Captain Gennady Lyachin.
But late that morning the pride of the fleet was to become the fleet’s _________. Vessels nearby noted two big explosions, two minutes apart. Contact with the Kursk ___________. The ships nearby did nothing.
By the time the Russian public learned the Kursk and her crew – She’d been on the ______ of the sea for two days. The military immediately showed everyone the situation was in control and the men were alive. In truth there was no contact with the crew. Yet this came from the naval commander in chief.
We now know that every last man on board that submarine was already dead and they died long before rescue was even found the vessel. Their families, the Russian people, the rest of the world were been deliberately ________________.
At first they blamed the _________________ World War II mine for blowing up the sub, then they _____________ a foreign vessel had collided with the Kursk.
The Russians repeatedly tried and _______________ to reach the Kursk with outdated _______________ rescue equipment. Yet ________________ pride and fear exposing the truth led naval command to ignore nearest international offers of help.
In Scotland a top team rescue was waited ready with a British submarine rescue craft far better than anything the Russians had. Tom Hearing was the pilot of LI-5.
“As soon as we heard, we were in standby, as soon as we heard the work coming through, there were things been arranged and we were ahead of the game”.
The Russians finally allowed them come to the site 6 days after the Kursk ___________.
“I think as soon as the Kursk went down we assured to many people offering to do anything possible it could”
From Norway the Stout Company was sending a team of commercial divers to the rescue. The Russians had put their ________________ to get to the Kursk down to the bad weather and strong currents. The team from Stout found neither.
“The seabed conditions were excellent for diving 20 meters visibility, favorable current less than half knot, ideal diving conditions, the submarine was upright, lying flat on the seabed, so in my point of view – an easy working environment with our experience technology.”
