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SSN 680 Plan of the Day

What We Could Not Have Imagined!

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Igor Kurdin! We are honored to have you as our guest.

Politics made us enemies, but our chosen profession and the cruel sea herself has made us brothers. May God bless our future by making us friends.

With these words I would welcome Captain First Rank (Ret.) Igor Kurdin to the ssn-680.org website.

Steven Perry and I met Igor Kurdin at the USSVI conference that was being held in San Diego the week after our REGROUPEX 09. Since the International Submariners Association was also meeting with the USSVI, we happened to chance upon Igor and his friends and family at poolside below our suite on Monday after most everyone else had departed.

Captain Kurdin was the commanding officer of the K-84, the Delta IV missile boat 'Ektarinaburg' in 1990-94, served as the XO of the K-219 that was lost off the US coast in 1986, as well as the K-418 and K-241. He is noted as the co-author of the book 'Hostile Waters' along with Peter Huchthuasen, describing the explosion of a missile onboard the K-219, and her subsequent sinking as she was being towed back to her homeport.

Please welcome Igor onboard, and extend to him every courtesy due a fellow submariner and submarine commander.

 

As a gentle reminder to the crew, as is our strict policy on this website, ensure that your posts do not contain any references to things that never happened during patrols that we didn't go on in places we never went. Security restrictions, though 25 years old or more, have not necessarily lapsed, and references to information that doesn't exist is not appropriate for many of our guests.

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