The Indonesian navy submarine lost track near the Bali coast, Wednesday
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Thursday, September 19
The desperate search for a submarine with 53 crew members with few hours of oxygen left continues
In Indonesia they are working around the clock to rescue 53 crew members of a missing navy submarine before they ran out of oxygen , according to the latest reports from that country’s navy.
Al KRI Nanggala – 402 lost track when I was about 100 km off the coast of Bali, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The search for the vessel involves six warships, a helicopter and 400 people.
Singapore and Malaysia have also dispatched ships, and the United States, Australia, France and Germany have offered assistance.
The German-built submarine was conducting an exercise when stopped reporting and, expressed the army.
“We know the area but it is quite deep, ”First Admiral Julius Widjojono told the AFP news agency.
Some reports indicate that contact with the submarine was lost after permission was given. to descend to deeper waters.
Meanwhile, an oil spill found near the place where the submarine submerged could be indicative of tank damage fuel, but it could also be a signal sent by the crew, the navy shuffled.
The missing vessel is one of five submarines operating in Indonesia. It was built at the end of the decade of the 1970 and then underwent a two and a half year retrofit in South Korea which was completed in 2012.
A navy spokesman told the BBC that it is the first time that Indonesia has lost one of its submarines, but similar incidents have occurred elsewhere.
On 2017, the Argentine military submarine Ara San Juan disappeared in the South Atlantic with 44 crew on board .
Its remains were located a year later and the authorities concluded that the device had imploded.
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