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NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy dispatched its Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel (DSRV) on Thursday to assist the Indonesian Navy in search and rescue efforts of its Submarine KRI Nanggala. The Submarine was reported missing on Wednesday.
Indian Navy in its statement said, On 21 April, an alert was received by Indian Navy through International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office (ISMERLO), regarding the missing Indonesian submarine. An officer added, We have sailed the mother ship with the DSRV within 24 hours of getting the information.
It requires a special capability to operate in deep waters which only few countries have and India is one of them. The site of accident is almost 2500 nautical miles away and the ship may take almost a week to reach the site of accident, it said.
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Countries from around the world are offering support to help locate and rescue the crew.
Time is short: The sub was only equipped with 72 hours of oxygen and may be too deep for rescue.
Countries from around the world are sending reinforcements to assist in the search for a Indonesian naval submarine that went missing on Wednesday.
The 53-person crew was participating in a torpedo drill north of Bali but failed to relay the results of the drill, an Indonesian Navy spokesperson told Reuters. Hadi Tjahjanto, the commander of the Indonesian National Armed Forces, said the submarine lost contact with the military at 4:30 a.m. local time on Wednesday.
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Indian Navy rescuers on Thursday started searching for an Indonesian submarine that went missing with 53 people on board in waters north of the island of Bali.
The Indian Navy s Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel (DSRV) departed from Visakhapatnam to support the Indonesian Navy in Search and Rescue efforts for KRI Nanggala on Thursday.
On April 21, an alert was received by the Indian Navy through the International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office (ISMERLO), regarding the missing Indonesian submarine. The submarine was exercising in a location 25 miles North of Bali with a crew of 53 personnel.
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