Sunken KRI Nanggala 402 Vessel: Adieu, Gallant Sailors!

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - The missing Indonesian KRI Nanggala 402 submarine has been found off the coast of Bali at a depth of more than 800 meters, divided into three parts, and all 53 crew members have fallen.

The Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) released video footage of a vessel’s wreckage was located on the ocean floor. The image was captured by a sonar scan belongs to the Singaporean Navy that detected the submarine at 850 meters (2,790 feet), far beyond its diving range.

Based on the finding, the Indonesian military authorities then confirmed that the vessel has sunk and all of its crew members had died.

“The 53 crew members on board the KRI Nanggala 402 submarine have fallen,” said Indonesia Military (TNI) commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto with a lump in his throat during a press conference on Sunday, April 25.

The KRI Nanggala-402 is the second Indonesian submarine ordered on April 2, 1977, from the shipbuilding company Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Germany. The vessel was brought by 38 crew members from Germany to Indonesia in early August 1981. The vessel was officially announced during the 36th anniversary of the Indonesian National Armed Forces Day (TNI Day) on October 5, 1981.

The 44-year-old vessel went missing north of the resort island of Bali when it was rehearsing for a missile-firing exercise scheduled for Thursday last week.

ANTARA FOTO/FIKRI YUSUF The part of the KRI Nanggala 402 ship from the MV Swift Rescue Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) image release during a press conference at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Air Base, Badung, Bali, Sunday (25/4/2021).

Kompas.com/ Imam Rosidin The Indonesian Navy shows evidence of fragments of KRI Nanggala-402 at the Base Ops Lanud I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Bali.

FIKRI YUSUF Panglima TNI Marsekal TNI Hadi Tjahjanto (kanan) dan Kepala Staf Angkatan Laut Laksamana TNI Yudo Margono (kiri) menunjukkan baju keselamatan awak kapal KRI Nanggala 402 yang ditemukan saat konferensi pers di Lanud I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Badung, Bali, Minggu (25/4/2021). KRI Nanggala 402 dipastikan tenggelam dan 53 awak kapalnya gugur di perairan utara Bali. ANTARA FOTO/Fikri Yusuf

ERIXSOEKAMTI via INSTAGRAM The crew of the KRI Nanggala-402 weeks before the submarine sank off the northern coast of Bali on Wednesday (21/4/2021)

ANTARA/SYAIFUL ARIF ARCHIVES PHOTO - The KRI Nanggala-402 submarine made in 1952 during the Maphilindo 2017 Border Security Operations Task Force exercise in the Java Sea, Friday (20/1/2017).

(Writers: Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Wisnu Nugroho | Editors: Rakhmat Nur Hakim, Heru Margianto)

Sources: https://nasional.kompas.com/read/2021/04/26/12413431/on-eternal-patrol-kri-nanggala-402-kini-menjaga-laut-indonesia-untuk?page=all#page2.

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