Time Running Out To Rescue 53 Sailors Aboard Missing Indonesian Submarine – NPR April 22, 2021

I saw this on NPR today – Time Running Out To Rescue 53 Sailors Aboard Missing Indonesian Submarine – NPR April 22, 2021: https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989758755/time-running-out-for-any-rescue-of-53-sailors-aboard-missing-indonesian-submarin. Slightly longer article.

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Rescuers scouring the Bali Sea for a stricken Indonesian submarine with 53 sailors aboard are hoping the crew could still be alive, but as the hours since the vessel’s disappearance tick by, the chances of survival grow increasingly slim.

The Indonesian navy chief of staff, Adm. Yudo Margono, told reporters Thursday that a search of the vicinity where the diesel-powered KRI Nanggala 402 is believed to have gone down, about 60 miles north of the resort island of Bali, had located an object with “high magnetic force” floating at a depth of 50 to 100 meters (about 165 to 330 feet). “We hope it is the KRI Nanggala,” he said.

But the navy had said previously that it believes the submarine may have sunk in a particularly deep spot in the otherwise relatively shallow sea — about 600-700 meters (2,000-2,300 feet) down — much deeper than the boat’s maximum operating depth and likely below its crush depth.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989758755/time-running-out-for-any-rescue-of-53-sailors-aboard-missing-indonesian-submarin