Published on: Friday, April 23, 2021
By: AFP
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Crew and officers during a ceremony onboard the Indonesian Cakra class submarine KRI Nanggala at the naval base in Surabaya in February of 2019.
BALI: Indonesian warships led the hunt Thursday for a navy submarine that went missing with 53 crew aboard during regular exercises, as other nations sent vessels to help.
An oil spill where the submarine was thought to have submerged early Wednesday pointed to possible damage, and fanned fears in the Southeast Asian nation of disaster.
While the KRI Nanggala 402 may have several days’ worth of oxygen reserves, defence analysts warned that the vessel could break into pieces if it had sunk to depths believed to be as much as 700 metres (2,300 feet).