Indonesia reported submarine missing in Bali wrecked: they found wreckage and ensured there was no hope for the 53 people on board

Indonesian authorities confirmed on Saturday that the submarine that disappeared off Bali with 53 people on board last Wednesday was wrecked, after finding device remains.

“Based on material we found that came from “ KRI Nanggala ”, we changed the submarine’s situation from “ missing ” to “ sunk ”Indonesian Navy spokesperson Yudo Margono said at a press conference.

Deployed military rescue personnel they found remains of the submarine Yes objects inside the device.

The Navy believes that the crew had oxygen to survive 72 hours in the event of a power failure and that period ended early on Saturday, making the presence of survivors very unlikely.

In addition, an oil slick was detected in the area where the submarine sank, which suggests that the tank was broken, that is, there was a technical problem in the device.

Military authorities have announced that the submersible could have sunk about 700 meters, a depth greater than that this submarine, manufactured 40 years ago, could withstand.

The ‘KRI Nanggala 402‘, made in Germany, asked for permission to dive into some of the military exercises he was conducting and disappeared. The United States sent a rescue team to help locate him, and Australia has also deployed two ships to the area.

The accident evokes other tragedies like the submersible of the Argentine navy “ARA San Juan”, with 44 crew members, missing in 2017 and found a year later, as well as the serious accident of the nuclear ruso “Kursk”, with 118 deaths.

THE MOST SERIOUS ACCIDENTS IN TWO DECADES

– February 9, 2001. The US nuclear submarine USS Greenville collided with the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru as it surfaced off the coast of Hawaii. Nine Japanese crew members died in the crash.

– May 2, 2003. Seventy crew members of the Chinese conventionally powered submarine die in one of the country’s worst naval disasters. The accident happened while he was conducting military exercises in the waters of the Yellow Sea, east of the Neichangshan Islands (off the eastern province of Shandong).

– August 30, 2003. Sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine “K-159” during a storm in the waters of the Barents Sea, at a depth of 170 meters and with ten people on board, one of whom was saved alive.

– January 8, 2005. A crew member died and 20 others were injured when the US nuclear submarine USS San Francisco ran aground about 560 kilometers south of Guam Island in the Pacific Ocean. Guan is an American territory located about 6,000 kilometers southwest of the island of Hawaii.

– September 7, 2006. Two sailors die in a fire in the nuclear submarine “Daniil Moskovski” of the Russian North Sea Fleet. Apparently there was no contamination, as the reactor was shut down by the protection systems.

– November 8, 2008. Twenty dead and 22 injured in a nuclear submarine of the Russian Pacific Fleet during maritime tests in its waters. A sailor mistakenly activated the fire extinguisher system, which released freon gas, killing six soldiers and 14 shipyard workers.

– August 18, 2013. Eighteen sailors are killed in an explosion in an Indian military submarine called INS Sindhurakshak.

– November 15, 2017. Contact is lost with the Argentine navy submarine ARA San Juan, with 44 crew members. The search begins with an underwater vehicle some 445 kilometers off the coast of the Valdés peninsula, where last contact has been made. He had left on the 13th from the port of Ushuaia and was heading for his base in Mar del Plata. On the 18th, 7 satellite calls were detected from the submarine without establishing contact with various bases. The remains were found just a year after sinking 907 meters deep.

– July 1, 2019. 14 Russian sailors die in the fire of the nuclear submarine AS-12, known as “Losharik”, capable of submerging up to 6000 meters. The accident occurred in the Barents Sea in northwest Russia and the deaths were due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The nuclear unit was not affected, as announced by the Minister of Defense.

(With information from AFP and EFE)

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