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Jakarta: Indonesian officials and the families of crew members have praised the men who perished on the submarine detected on the floor of the Bali Strait.
Indonesia found the wreckage of the navy submarine of the KRI Nanggala-402 missing since Wednesday and declared all 53 of its crew members dead, the countryâs military chief announced on Sunday.
Relatives carry a portrait of Captain Gede Kartika, one of the junior officers of Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala that sank in Celukan Bawang, Bali, Indonesia.
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Berda Asmara, wife of Second Sergeant Guntur Ari Prasetya told the
Jakarta Post she had last spoken to her husband 30 minutes before the submarine left for a training program on Monday. He had asked for prayers for his safety before his departure, she said.
JAKARTA: The wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine missing since Wednesday has been found on the seafloor and all its 53 crew are confirmed dead, Indonesia military commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto said Sunday.
The Nanggala-402 submarine was reportedly broken into three parts at the depth of 838 meters under the sea, Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff Yudo Margono said. There, the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine was found in three big parts, he told a joint press conference, saying the next step is to lift the wreckage of the vessel with the help of foreign navies.
The news came a day after debris believed to be from the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine was found floating about two miles from the submarine s last known location in the Bali Strait, leading military officials to change the vessel s status from missing to sunk.
Nanggala lost contact shortly after the Indonesian Navy gave it permission to dive at 3:00 a.m. The
Nanggala was in the Bali Strait, a narrow waterway between the islands of Java and Bali. Here’s the Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) notifying civilian aviators of the torpedo exercise: This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
Aerial searchers discovered an oil slick on the ocean in the vicinity of the sub’s last known location at 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
HeadlineApr 26, 2021
Indonesia’s military has located the wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine, with all 53 crew members aboard presumed dead. The submarine broke into three pieces and settled at the bottom of the Bali Strait at a depth of 850 meters. An Indonesian admiral said the Navy lost contact with the 44-year-old submarine Wednesday ahead of a planned torpedo drill and that the vessel likely suffered an explosion.
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