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Chinese Navy to Help with Recovery of Indonesian Sub Wreck
May 4, 2021 3:07 PM
PLAN Ocean Salvage and Rescue Ship Yongxing Dao-863
KUALA LUMPUR – China has dispatched three ships to Indonesia to assist in the salvaging of the Indonesian attack submarine KRI
Nanggala (402). Two ships – the People’s Liberation Army Navy Ocean Tug
Nantuo-195 and PLAN Ocean Salvage and Rescue Ship
Yongxing Dao-863 – arrived on scene May 3 and the third ship, scientific research vessel
Tan Suo 2, is expected to arrive today.
Beijing had earlier made an offer to Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto to assist with the salvaging of the submarine on a humanitarian basis and the offer was accepted, according to press reports. The Indonesian Navy is also in talks with SKK Migas, the country’s oil industry regulator, about conducting its own salvage operation. The Indonesian operation would involve the use of offshore support ship
Family members release flowers into the sea during a remembrance ceremony for the crew of the sunken Indonesian navy submarine KRI Nanggala, from the deck of the hospital ship KRI Dr. Soeharso off the coast of Bali, Indonesia, April 30, 2021. [AFP]
Two Chinese military ships have reached Bali Sea waters to help salvage the wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine that sank last month with 53 crewmembers on board, officials said Monday.
Two of the three People’s Liberation Army Navy ships that will participate in the effort to bring up pieces of the KRI Nanggala-402, whose wreck was found a half-mile under the sea, arrived the day before, said Navy spokesman 1
AFP
Two Chinese military ships have reached Bali Sea waters to help salvage the wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine that sank last month with 53 crewmembers on board, officials said Monday.
Two of the three People’s Liberation Army Navy ships that will participate in the effort to bring up pieces of the KRI Nanggala-402, whose wreck was found a half-mile under the sea, arrived the day before, said Navy spokesman 1
st Adm. Julius Widjojono.
“PRC Navy Ship Ocean Tug Nantuo-195 and PRC Navy Ocean Salvage & Rescue Yongxing Dao-863 have arrived in Indonesia, in Bali’s waters, on Sunday,” Julius told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service.