In summer 2001 an international team assembles in Russia's Barents Sea to attempt the most difficult operation in the history of ocean salvage. The mission to raise a Russian nuclear submarine the Kursk victim of a violent disaster. An explosion that plunged the submarine one and a half football fields long to the bottom of the sea. How this could have happened is a mystery that only raising the sub may solve. Nothing like it has ever been attempted. To succeed salvagers must summon a network of ships, divers and the heaviest lifting equipment in the world in their quest to raise the Kursk. The Barents Sea, far in the Russian north is one of the harshest oceans on the planet. The Barents is hospitable for only a few short months each summer. By September it is a frothing fury. On September 26th when Ocean Salvagers aboard massive barge arrived to lift the sunken submarine Kursk They feared they are too late. A twisting road has led to this dramatic day. For those who will attempt to raise the Kursk it is now a battle against nature and time. The Kursk's story begins a year earlier. August 10th, 2000. Dawn, the Barents Sea above the Arctic Circle. In a restricted harbor the nuclear submarine Kursk prepares for the largest war game in her six years of service. This place once symbolized terror to Western navies.