>The men weren't killed instantly, they >are/were waiting for help, which is very >different.
I've seen this be debated over the last few days.
The Russians say the sailers had been tapping messages on the hull and that all were initially alive and that now the tapping has stopped.
Americans, who I imagine have been listening the whole time, maybe even since the sub was first set to sea, say there has never been any kind of tapping and indicating that they all died when the explosions happened. The second explosion was apparently far worse than the first.