All 118 people died after rescue teams took days to gain access to the submarine, and oxygen ran out for the 23 sailors who had survived the blast. In 2000, a Russian Navy submarine sank to the seabed after an explosion on board.
Its navy is poorly funded, even as the country has to contend with regular incursions by foreign fishing fleets and coast guards. Navies from neighboring nations, like Australia and Singapore, have been alerted and will join the search in the coming days, Indonesia’s Ministry of Defense said.Ī country of thousands of inhabited islands, Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic nation. One of the ships was deployed earlier this year to search for the flight recorders of an Indonesian jet that crashed in January. Two Indonesian Navy ships are using sonar to search for the missing vessel, First Admiral Widjojono said. “I am afraid there is a lack of standard operating procedure maintenance.” “The quality of the navy crew is not in doubt, but the treatment of this submarine may need to be rechecked,” said Connie Rahakundini Bakrie, a military analyst at the University of Indonesia. It is not clear why the vessel had more people on board during this torpedo drill. The submarine, about 196 feet long and more than 19 feet wide, was built to hold 34 crew members, according to specifications cited by the navy during a previous training session. The request was granted, but contact with the submarine was lost after that.īuilt in 1977 in Germany and refitted in 2012, the Nanggala was last “fully maintained” in May 2018, according to a defense expert, who did not want to be identified speaking about internal naval information.
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