Russian Navy – Norwegian divers have successfully opened the outer and inner hatch of the Kursk, and found the compartment behind it totally flooded. There is now no hope of finding anyone alive on the Kursk. The British submersible LR5 will not be used.

• BBC News: Sub crew ‘all dead’
• BBC News: Disaster exposes military decline
• Daily Telegraph (registration required): Russians argue as divers give the go-ahead for submarine rescue
• Times of London (registration required): Sealed hatch foils divers