![]() ![]() The local press reported that the vessel might have been overloaded past the usual operating capacity of a submarine in its class, which is 40 sailors.Ī multinational rescue effort including the US, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia have joined Indonesia in the search and rescue effort with the Pentagon deploying a U.S. Officials previously estimated that the vessel only had a 72-hour supply of oxygen onboard. It was taking part in a torpedo training exercise early Wednesday morning in the waters north of Bali when it suddenly lost contact with the other vessels involved. The 44-year-old German-made submarine was part of the Indonesian Navy’s 2nd Fleet. If there is an explosion, it must have destroyed everything,” Yudo said, adding that if there was an explosion, the acoustics would have been picked up on sonar. Yudo ruled out the possibility that the submarine exploded underwater as the condition of the debris recovered suggested the vessel cracked. ![]()
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