Wouldn't an earthquake have shifted the ships elsewhere? I'm just speculating here.
Edit: Never mind. Saw the Guardian link which provides more info. I'm surprised there's capability to salvage that deep for large wrecks.
Edit: Never mind. Saw the Guardian link which provides more info. I'm surprised there's capability to salvage that deep for large wrecks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-219
Short version: after she went down, someone went down and ripped off the nuclear missile doors, and took several of her missiles directly from the tubes, at 6000 meters. I don't imagine too many countries had the technology to do that.
That's probably a result of missile(s) explosion, similar to explosion which resulted in her loss. Occam's razor, you know.
(I forget what they did with the recruits.)