AP
Indonesian navy ships searched Thursday for a submarine that likely sank too deep to retrieve, making survival chances for the 53 people on board slim. Authorities said oxygen in the submarine would run out by early Saturday.
The diesel-powered KRI Nanggala 402 was participating in a training exercise Wednesday when it missed a scheduled reporting call. Officials reported an oil slick and the smell of diesel fuel near the starting position of its last dive, about 96 kilometers (60 miles) north of the resort island of Bali, though there was no conclusive evidence that they were linked to the submarine. More
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Yahoo! News
The US military is sending air assets to help Indonesia search for a naval submarine that has been missing since it failed to check in Wednesday morning, the Pentagon said.
“We are deeply saddened by the news of Indonesia’s lost submarine, and our thoughts are with the Indonesian sailors and their families,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement Thursday evening. More
When a sub goes down, how often are survivors rescued from it?
They took a lesson from the Pollacks and added screen doors I’m guessing…
The Navy has a special team based in San Diego for Submarine Rescue. I’ve sold them some custom tools, and visited the site. As you would expect they are a dedicated bunch. They make you proud of being an American.
What an awful way to go. Praying for the victims.
Will CNN make this their next project, like they did with that Malaysian airlines?
No one has tracking devices installed on their subs anymore?
^^^^^ Wouldn’t a tracking device sort of defeat the purpose of a submarine?
So you think our military can’t find OUR subs?
-MJA
MJA – Actually you raise an interesting point – Don’t they have antennas they can put up on buoy?
(… if they’re able to)
Kamala Harris is being rushed to the scene since she is the foremost administration expert on going down.
“Kamala Harris is being rushed to the scene since she is the foremost administration expert on going down.”
Cylindrical.
Long.
Hard.
Full of Seamen.
Yep, that’s Kamel-Hoe’s domain.
izlamo delenda est …
“So you think our military can’t find OUR subs?”
If ours can, theirs can too.
“If ours can, theirs can too.”
OK, so where’s the particular sub they’re looking for now? lol
Let’s just let CNN hash out the details on this. They’re experts.
^^^^ Brian Stelter “they are looking for a hard tube full of seamen.”
“OK, so where’s the particular sub they’re looking for now? lol”
How does that relate to my posts?
To start with, it’s an Indonesian sub, not one of ours, and it obviously doesn’t have some kind of tracking device or it wouldn’t be missing and wouldn’t have had to show up at a rendezvous location to verify it was still in action.
I’m pretty sure she can sniff out sea men like a hog finds truffles!
It’s always a training exercise.
‘Don’t they have antennas they can put up on buoy?’
“Those aren’t buoys.”
– Raquel Welch (Seinfeld reference)
Oh I fergot, Indonesians have extra Bois with megaphones to stick into torpedo tubes and launch out to scream for help…
Ummm…I’m no naval expert, but don’t ships usually sink because they are full of water, which kind of renders moot any discussion about depth or air supply?
@RickeyG: that’s not how subs work. Ships stay afloat because their hull design displaces more water than the ship weighs. Subs stay afloat (or at the depth they desire to be at) because the ballast tanks change the weight of the sub by expelling or taking on water. If the ballast tanks fill with water the sub will sink, even if the inside is full of air. Eventually it reaches “crush depth” where the hull design/strength can’t withstand the outside water pressure and the sub is crushed inward. I think that’s around 1500 meters. If the sub sank in shallower water, the crew could survive for awhile. Usually they bang on the hull with metal wrenches to create noise so rescuers can find them with sonar. If the sub can’t be found, there is no noise so the crew is likely lost already.
Anonymous- “How does that relate to my posts?”
Dude. What are YOU going on about? You questioned my comment about tracking:
“Wouldn’t a tracking device sort of defeat the purpose of a submarine?”
And I’m telling/told you there are ways to track subs. You think the US (example) would build a damn near 1 billion dollar sub and not have a way to track it? Or to have the sub not be able to send an SOS signal???
What country wouldn’t have those options?
I can’t believe I have to even say that. lol
And the other thing: If the Indos can’t figure it out, who ever built and sold them that sub is the person they should get the help from.