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What Is An 'Internal Wave'? It Might Explain The Loss Of An Indonesian Submarine


Jeff Schmaltz
/ , MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
Originally published on May 4, 2021 1:04 pm
No official cause has yet been established for the destruction of an Indonesian submarine with 53 people aboard earlier this month, but some speculation has zeroed in on an undersea phenomenon which has been noted by submariners since at least World War II, though it has become better understood only in recent decades.
A senior Indonesian navy official suggested earlier this week that an internal wave may have pushed the KRI Nanggala 402 below its crush depth, causing the loss of the vessel and all aboard. He cited satellite images showing the presence of such a wave in the area at about the time the sub disappeared. ....

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Jeff Schmaltz/, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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An image taken by NASA s Aqua satellite as it passes over Indonesia, captures evidence of an internal wave in the same general area where the KRI Nanggala submarine disappeared earlier this month.
Jeff Schmaltz/, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
No official cause has yet been established for the destruction of an Indonesian submarine with 53 people aboard earlier this month, but some speculation has zeroed in on an undersea phenomenon which has been noted by submariners since at least World War II, though it has become better understood only in recent decades. ....

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