The KRI Nanggala-402 vessel is thought to have disappeared. In 2003, 70 Chinese naval officers and crew were killed, apparently suffocated, in an accident on a Ming-class submarine during exercises in 2003.įive years later, 20 people were killed by poisonous gas when a fire extinguishing system was accidentally activated on a Russian submarine being tested in the Sea of Japan.Īnd in 2018, authorities found the wreckage of an Argentine submarine that had gone missing a year earlier with 44 sailors aboard. Indonesia has about 72 hours left to rescue 53 crew members of a missing navy submarine before they run out of oxygen, the navy said.
MISSING INDONESIAN NAVY SUBMARINE CRACKED
Most of its crew died instantly but some survived for several days before suffocating. at 4:59 pm BANYUWANGI, Indonesia Indonesia’s navy on Saturday declared its missing submarine had sunk and cracked open after finding items from the vessel over the past two days. An inquiry found a torpedo had exploded, detonating all the others. That submarine was on maneuvers in the Barents Sea when it sank with the loss of all 118 aboard. On Thursday, Indonesia’s military said it had picked up signs of an object with high magnetism at a depth of between 50 and 100 meters (165 and 330 feet), bolstering hopes of finding the submarine.īut the passing of Saturday’s oxygen deadline was likely to add the Southeast Asian archipelago to a list of countries struck by fatal submarine accidents.Īmong the worst was the 2000 sinking of the Kursk, the pride of Russia’s Northern Fleet. Neighboring Singapore and Malaysia as well as the United States and Australia were among nations helping in the hunt with nearly two dozen warships deployed to scour a search zone covering about 10 square nautical miles (34 square kilometers). “It’s possible people don’t survive,” he said.An outrigger canoe sails past Indonesian Navy ships at the naval base in Banyuwangi, East Java province, on April 24, 2021, as the military continues search operations off the coast of Bali for the Navy's KRI Nanggala submarine that went missing April 21 during a training exercise. However, hopes of survival are growing dim. Rescuers will likely have to break the hull or conning tower as the submarine doesn’t have a rescue seat, he said. “It was an accident waiting to happen,” Ridzwan said.
MISSING INDONESIAN NAVY SUBMARINE UPGRADE
It was supposed to be decommissioned but because of limited funding, the government decided to upgrade it instead in South Korea, he said. KRI Nanggala-402 was built in Germany in 1977 and joined the ranks of the Indonesian navy in 1981. The typical life cycle for a naval submarine is only about 30 to 35 years, Ridzwan said.
According to the Janes analyst, the incident could have been avoided if the vessel wasn’t overloaded or kept in service for so long. Questions are being raised as Indonesian authorities try to shed light on the Southeast Asian nation’s first submarine disappearance. “Hopefully, this can be found soon while there is still spare oxygen,” the navy’s Margono said in a Thursday statement. Meanwhile, Indonesia has deployed more than 20 vessels to scour the waters and is conducting aerial surveillance after an oil spill was found around the submarine’s starting dive position. The U.S.’s Poseidon airship is also en-route from the Philippines, while two Australian vessels have arrived on-site, Indonesia’s army spokesperson Djawara Whimbo said on Friday. Navies in Singapore and Malaysia have sent ships equipped with deep submergence rescue vehicles to aid in the search. About 44 crew perished when the aging Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan went missing in 2017.
About 118 crew died in 2000 when the Russian nuclear stealth machine Kursk exploded then came to rest on the ocean floor off Murmansk. While people can self-evacuate to the surface in shallower waters less than 50 meters, pressure at greater depths is strong enough to crush steel hulls and lungs, according to salvage experts. Survival rates are low for victims of submarine accidents in waters deeper than 200 meters. Related Book: Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders L. on Saturday, Jakarta time, after which oxygen is insufficient, according to navy Commander Admiral Yudo Margono.
Air in the KRI Nanggala-402 is estimated to be breathable only until 3 a.m. This adds greater urgency for rescuers who are racing against the clock to find the missing submarine and its crew.
At over 40 years, the Cold War-era submarine is among the world’s oldest in service today and was not built to withstand pressure beyond 230 meters (754 feet) deep, Ridzwan said. A submarine of that class has a maximum capacity of 40, according to Ridzwan Rahmat, principal defense analyst at Janes. The KRI Nanggala-402 that disappeared in waters off Bali island was carrying 53 crew during training, Indonesia’s defense ministry said. By Ann Koh and Arys Aditya (Bloomberg) The Indonesian navy’s missing submarine may have been too old and overloaded when it embarked on a military exercise on Wednesday, according to a defense analyst.
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