“Crossing my fingers that the crew will all survive. Bakrie, the Indonesian military analyst, referring to the search for the missing Indonesian submarine. The grim announcement comes a day after Indonesia said the submarine was considered sunk, not merely missing, but did not explicitly say whether the crew was dead. Jakarta, Indonesia CNN Indonesia’s Navy changed the status of its missing submarine from sub miss to sub sank on Saturday, as a naval chief presented debris believed to be from the vessel at. “Crossing my fingers that help from Australia and other countries will come,” said Ms. In 2005, seven sailors on board a small Russian Navy submarine that was trapped in a fishing net were freed just a few hours before their oxygen would have run out. Its wreckage was found a year later.īut miraculous rescues have occurred. In 2017, an Argentine Navy submarine went missing with 44 people on board, after what was thought to be an electrical malfunction. All 118 people died after rescue teams took days to gain access to the submarine, and oxygen ran out for the 23 sailors who had survived the blast. In 2000, a Russian Navy submarine sank to the seabed after an explosion on board.
Its navy is poorly funded, even as the country has to contend with regular incursions by foreign fishing fleets and coast guards. Navies from neighboring nations, like Australia and Singapore, have been alerted and will join the search in the coming days, Indonesia’s Ministry of Defense said.Ī country of thousands of inhabited islands, Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic nation. One of the ships was deployed earlier this year to search for the flight recorders of an Indonesian jet that crashed in January. Two Indonesian Navy ships are using sonar to search for the missing vessel, First Admiral Widjojono said. “I am afraid there is a lack of standard operating procedure maintenance.” “The quality of the navy crew is not in doubt, but the treatment of this submarine may need to be rechecked,” said Connie Rahakundini Bakrie, a military analyst at the University of Indonesia. It is not clear why the vessel had more people on board during this torpedo drill. Family members hold photographs of Marine Colonel Harry Setiawan, commander of the Navys KRI Nanggala (402) submarine that went missing off the coast of Bali on April 21 during a training. The submarine, about 196 feet long and more than 19 feet wide, was built to hold 34 crew members, according to specifications cited by the navy during a previous training session.
The ship has 53 people aboard, namely 49 crew members, one commander, and three arsenal personnel.The request was granted, but contact with the submarine was lost after that.īuilt in 1977 in Germany and refitted in 2012, the Nanggala was last “fully maintained” in May 2018, according to a defense expert, who did not want to be identified speaking about internal naval information. The submarine lost contact after requesting diving permission to fire the Surface and Underwater Target (SUT) Torpedo at 3:00 a.m.
The debris was found about 10 km away from the search point where no other boats had passed. The Indonesian military (TNI) said on Saturday afternoon that it had raised the status of search for the missing submarine from SUBMISS to SUBSUNK and the decision came after they found some authentic evidences of debris believed to be from the KRI Nanggala-402, with one of which looks like a torpedo tube. The cracks became bigger when the submarine dove deeper amid rising water pressure, and the submarine is believed to be at the depth of between 600 to 700 meters, he added.Īn Indonesian navy ship prepares to carry out the search and rescue operation of missing submarine KRI Nanggala-402 at Tanjung Wangi Port in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia, April 24, 2021. The submarine had suffered from cracks that caused several components to separate from it, according to the navy chief of staff. The condition of those aboard the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine cannot be determined, he told a press conference. JAKARTA, April 24 (Xinhua) - Indonesian searchers have found debris which are believed to be from the missing submarine in waters off Bali Island, Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Yudo Margono said on Saturday. The Indonesian military (TNI) said it had raised the status of search for the missing submarine from SUBMISS to SUBSUNK and the decision came after they found some authentic evidences of debris believed to be from the KRI Nanggala-402, with one of which looks like a torpedo tube. Indonesian military officials speak on phone in front of a map of the location where the Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala that went missing while. 5, 2017 shows Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala-402 during a ceremony honoring the 72nd anniversary of the country's Armed Forces Day at Cilegon, Banten province, Indonesia. Desperate search for missing Indonesian submarine running low on oxygen April 23, 202101:20 The submarine has been in service in Indonesia since 1981 and was carrying 49 crew members and three.
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