![]() The plugs have arms that unfold under the beams and the inner skin to provide a firm anchorage. ![]() When the Kursk is fully prepared, the lifting cables (each made up of a large number of thinner cables) will be lowered from the pontoon and anchored in the holes in the Kursk using large steel plugs. A section will also be required to be cut out from the pontoons to make room for the Kursk's conning tower. They are working at a temperature of between 0 and 6 degrees Celsius. The Kursk's bow will be cut free and left on the seabed so that the rest of the vessel can later be lifted as a compact load. ![]() The holes will be cut using water jets by means of high-pressure water and abrasives. The Russian Navy together with the submarine's designer, Rubin, will determine the exact location of the holes based on the design of the submarine's interior. Smit Tak International will lease out the pontoon which is 140 meters long and 36 meters wide).Īt the same time the divers will start to remove the seriously damaged bow of the Kursk and cut holes in its hull. Deep-sea divers will attach 26 cables, each 23 centimeters in width to the Kursk to gently raise it to the surface with the help of a crane ship (The biggest floating crane "Tialf" which belongs to the Dutch firm Heerema will perform this section of the operation. Eventually, thousands and thousands of e-mails, documents, contracts and finished films made their way online and cost Sony millions in the aftermath.A special pontoon ship (The Giant) will be used to raise the Kursk from her watery grave, she will be fitted out in Amsterdam with 26 strand jacks, each of which can lift up to 900 tonnes. In the case of The Interview, hackers demanded that Sony remove the film from their slate or face the consequences. You only need to look at the utter chaos that came when Kim Jong-Un was featured heavily in The Interview to get why removing Putin from the film is a safe choice. "That's a certain way to be targeted (for retaliation)." "For a studio to release a movie about Putin that makes him look like a fool would be suicide," said Ajay Arora, CEO of security firm Vera. While no specific reason was given by the productions in either case, security analysts who spoke to THR came up with a pretty good reason - hackers. With regards to Kursk, Putin featured in the early drafts of the screenplay and was obviously involved in the real-life disaster but was later removed from the shooting script. In the case of Red Sparrow, Putin - himself a former Lieutenant Colonel in the KGB - was a character in the source novel by Jason Matthews, but has since been removed from the shooting screenplay and the time of the story shifted from modern Russia to '70s Budapest. However, in both cases, the current Russian leader Vladimir Putin was a part of the original screenplay and has since been excised. ![]() Two major films are planned for the next year - Red Sparrow, with Jennifer Lawrence, and Kursk, with Colin Firth and Matthias Schoenarts - have a Russian focus to them, with Kursk based on the real-life submarine disaster and Red Sparrow dealing with a KGB double-agent. What with everything that's happening in the US with Donald Trump and the very real possibility that Russia interfered with the elections, it's no wonder that major studios are starting to greenlight films with a Russian feel. You had Rambo, Beverly Hills Cop II (technically they were East-Germans, but you get the idea), and about a dozen more schlocky action films that had Russia, or the former Soviet Union, as villains. ![]() Throughout the '80s, Russians were essentially the go-to bad guys in films. ![]()
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