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Poor Preparation Blamed for Deaths on Sub 

Civilians are supposed to undergo training on safety procedures, but "it is usually limited to some formal instructions," Igor Kudrin, a former submarine captain, told Kommersant. He speculated that someone lighting a cigarette near a safety gauge might have triggered the fire system.

While older generations of submarines had fire safety systems that were activated on the captain's command, new submarines have systems that switch on automatically, said another former submarine captain, Nikolai Markovtsev, Kommersant reported.

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