Indonesia seeks missing submarine with 53 tr …

The Indonesian Navy is seeking a missing submarine from this wednesday with 53 crew members on board. His government has requested cooperation from neighboring countries such as Australia, Singapore and India to follow in the waters north of the island of Bali.

The case dates back to the disappearance of the ARA San Juan that Argentina suffered on November 15, 2017, when contact with the submarine and its 44 crew members was completely lost. Recently, one of the Navy officials revealed that then government President Mauricio Macri hid relatives and national and international public opinion who had located the ARA San Juan on December 5, 2017, twenty days after the disappearance. His discovery has just been communicated officially on November 16, 2018.

As stated by the Indonesian Ministry of Defense in a statement, in this case the KRI Nanggala-402 submarine disappeared during military exercises with torpedoes at a depth of about 700 meters at 3:00 a.m. local time (8:00 p.m. GMT the day before).

“Around 7 am, surveillance by a helicopter discovered an oil spill where the submarine had disappeared,” the ministry said in a statement.

The submarine crew applied for the diving permit at this time and shortly thereafter contact with the vessel has been lost, made in Germany in 1977, the ships participating in the exercise immediately began the search. “At around 7 a.m., helicopter surveillance discovered an oil spill where the submarine had disappeared. “the ministry said in a statement, four hours after losing contact.

Commander Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto told the Kompas news agency he would be traveling there on Thursday to oversee the search operation, in which Australia and Singapore are participating with special search submarines.

Other countries, such as India, have also answered the call and were willing to offer assistance, although the Defense Ministry has not yet clarified what tasks will be done.

Indonesia currently has a fleet of five submarines, two German-made, including the missing one, which was acquired in 1981, and three made in South Korea.