![]() ![]() Australia, France and Germany also offered assistance. The Pentagon sent airborne assistance to aid in the search. Vitagliano was liaising with the Indonesian Navy on the rescue mission. Just before he and a fellow expert boarded a flight out of London for Indonesia on Friday morning, Italian Navy Commander, Gennaro Vitagliano, who is head of the ISMERLO Branch at COMSUBNATO (Commander Submarines NATO), told DPI that India, Malaysia and Singapore had dispatched their respective Deep Submergence Rescue Vessels (DSRVs) to the area. Singapore’s MV Swift Rescue sailed out of Changi Naval Base on Wednesday, while Malaysia’s MV Mega Bakti submarine rescue ship left RMN Kota Kinabalu on Thursday, with both expected to arrive at the site of the mishap this weekend. NATO’s ISMERLO alerted navies across the region after receiving an appeal for help from the Indonesian Navy. Both Malaysia and Singapore have their rescue vessels embarked with medical teams. The prefix ‘KRI’ stands for Kapal Republik Indonesia or Republic of Indonesia Ship. The boat is one of two of the same model used by the Indonesian Navy, which has three additional submarines of the advanced Type 209, which were built more recently under licence in South Korea and Indonesia. ![]() The submarine, which was delivered in 1981 to the Indonesian Navy by German-based HDW Shipyard, now owned by ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, was last refitted in 2012 in South Korea. Some suggest the submarine's torpedo launcher may have malfunctioned or been damaged. The Indonesian Navy's Chief of Staff, Admiral Yudo Margono, said on Saturday that a search party had recovered fragments from the submarine, including items from inside the vessel. Which navies contributed to the rescue efforts?Īs an international rescue effort, involving multiple navies and NATO's UK-based International Submarine Escape and Rescue Liaison Office (ISMERLO), got under way, hopes faded of rescuing the Indonesian Navy submarine, KRI Nanggala, which went missing on Wednesday with 53 personnel on board during torpedo firing drills off the coast of Bali.Ĭontact with the 1,395-tonne KRI Nanggala diesel-electric submarine was lost after it requested permission to dive. It is presumed to have sunk in waters that were 700 metres deep.Īny hope for survivors now seem slim as oxygen supplies on board the submarine ran out on Saturday (April 23) morning.How the missing Indonesian submarine's rescue could have played out.The missing Indonesian submarine, KRI Nanggala, in the Java Sea in 2015 during a bilateral training exercise with the US Navy and Marine Corps (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Alonzo M. ![]()
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