Wife of Kursk Crew Members Has a Vision

Nov. 3 -- They were the words of a desperate man. “It seems there is no chance, let’s hope for 10 to 20 percent, that someone will read this.”

When Lt. Capt. Dmitry Kolesnikov wrote the letter in the frigid darkness of the Kursk as it lay listing 354 feet below the freezing Barents Sea, he probably had no idea the world would come to read his last written words.

Parts of the letter, which Russian divers on a recovery mission found on the body of the 27-year-old crew member, were released to the public last week.

On Thursday, a large copy of the letter was displayed behind glass in a hall in St. Petersburg where Kolesnikov’s funeral was held.

But for his widow, Olga Kolesnikov, there are questions still without answers. Russian authorities have not released the entire note. “They wouldn’t give it to me,” she told ABCNEWS’ Good Morning America in an exclusive interview. “The only conclusion I can come to, is there’s something in that note they don’t want me to see.”

Of the 118 crewmen who died in the explosion of the Russian submarine, only 12 bodies have been recovered; and for that, Olga is grateful.

Saying Goodbye