"Can you imagine if water with that kind of pressure hits people?" but when they're breached then water would come flooding inside," said Wisnu Wardhana, a maritime expert at Indonesia's Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology. They discounted an explosion, however, saying Saturday that the evidence suggested the submarine came apart as it was crushed by water pressure at depths of more than 800 metres - pressure much higher than the German-built Nanggala was built to withstand.
(AFP photo)Īuthorities have not given an official explanation for the accident, but said that the submarine may have suffered a blackout and left its crew unable to resurface. People from various religions gather to offer prayers in Surabaya on Sunday for the 53 sailors trapped in the submarine, as Indonesia's military confirmed that all 53 crew were dead. "All Indonesians convey their deep sadness over this incident, especially to the families of the submarine crew," he said. President Joko Widodo described the missing sailors as Indonesia's "best patriots". "My son had wanted to become a soldier since he was a child. "My wish now is that my son and all the crew can be found," Adi's father Edy Sujianto said from his home on Java island. "With deep sadness, I can say that all 53 personnel onboard have passed," he told reporters.Įarlier Sunday, the relatives of First Lt Muhammad Imam Adi, a 29-year-old father of a young son, clung to hope. Warships, planes and hundreds of military personnel had led a frantic search for the submarine since it disappeared this week during training exercises, hoping for a miracle rescue before its known oxygen reserves ran out.īut on Sunday, Indonesian military head Gen Hadi Tjahjanto confirmed there was no chance of finding any of the crew alive. They also found a prayer mat commonly used in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. They had also declared that it had sunk, effectively ending any chance of finding survivors.Īmong the earlier items recovered were a piece of the torpedo system and a bottle of grease used to lubricate periscopes. The discovery comes a day after the navy had first confirmed the retrieval of fragments from the submarine, including items from inside the vessel.
"There were parts of KRI Nanggala 402 - it was broken into three pieces," said Navy Chief of Staff ADM Yudo Margono. More parts from the vessel were also retrieved, including an anchor and safety suits worn by crew members, they said. They had used an underwater submarine rescue vehicle supplied by Singapore to get a visual confirmation of the KRI Nanggala 402.
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JAKARTA: A missing Indonesian submarine has been found cracked apart on the seabed in waters off Bali, the military said Sunday, as it confirmed that all 53 crew perished in the disaster.Īuthorities said that they received signals from the location more than 800 metres deep early Sunday morning.
This handout photo taken on Sunday and released by the Indonesia Military shows parts of the missing submarine which has been found cracked apart on the seafloor in waters off Bali.
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