In the second edition of the book, the author still considers the main version of the death of the Kursk submarine to be the explosion of a hydrogen peroxide torpedo and the detonation of ammunition and provides new evidence to support it, including facts of deliberate concealment by the command of the Russian Navy, the Northern Fleet and the Main Military the prosecutor's office of unsatisfactory preparation of the ship and crew for going to sea, design flaws of the 949A project, which the general designer of the Rubin Central Design Bureau, Igor Spassky, is silent about. We are talking about forgery of documents relating to crew training at the Submariner Training Center and the condition of torpedo weapons. Versions of the Kursk colliding with American submarines, the attack of a submarine cruiser by Russian surface ships and ground-based missile launchers, which arose or were replicated after the release of the first edition of the book, are refuted. The pages of the second edition describe the phantasmagoric story of the appearance of an additional resolution of investigator Arthur Yegiev, in which they confess Almost all of the defense’s arguments are called into question and the fundamental expertise of Viktor Kolkutin and Sergei Kozlov is called into question. The role of some leaders of the country, the fleet and the investigative bodies, who determined the fate of the criminal case on the sinking of the Kursk and continue to hide the truth from society, is being reviewed. The author uses non-standard forms of documentary narration - virtual cross-examinations and confrontations, formulates charges, and performs a kind of pathological autopsy of the condition Russian fleet against the backdrop of the Kursk tragedy.