Twenty more go to Davy Jones’s Locker Yet another accident on a Russian naval atomic submarine Grigory Pasko, journalist On 8 November at 20:30 local time in the Sea of Japan on an atomic submarine of the Pacific Ocean Fleet, which had come out of the base of the closed territorial-administrative formation (ZATO) «Bolshoy Kamen», there took place an unsanctioned activation of the fire-extinguishing system with the emission of freon. As a result, 6 military service personnel and 14 civilian persons died, another 22 persons are hospitalized with various injuries. In total, 20 dead. According to the data of the Russian military, on board the boat at the moment of the accident were found 208 persons, of whom a mere 81 were military service personnel. Immediately, of course, there arises the question: just what were civilian people doing on an atomic boat in the first place?