Kursk submarine tragedy

Today is August 12, 2000. You were having a perfectly ordinary day, as ordinary as it could be. Your father is a sailor, or rather, underwater. But today, disaster struck in the Barents Sea. On the very same Kursk submarine where your father served, a training shell exploded, damaging nine compartments. Twenty-three people, including your father, were trapped in an air bubble; 23 out of 118 survived. The British offered to help, but Putin refused, saying, "We can do it ourselves." He ended up returning from vacation on August 18, when no one else was around. Your mother decided not to tell you about it yet.