In 2003, 70 Chinese naval officers and crew were killed, apparently suffocated, in an accident on a Ming-class submarine during exercises in 2003.įive years later, 20 people were killed by poisonous gas when a fire extinguishing system was accidentally activated on a Russian submarine being tested in the Sea of Japan.Īnd in 2018, authorities found the wreckage of an Argentine submarine that had gone missing a year earlier with 44 sailors aboard. Most of its crew died instantly but some survived for several days before suffocating. That submarine was on manoeuvres in the Barents Sea when it sank with the loss of all 118 aboard.Īn inquiry found a torpedo had exploded, detonating all the others. 1:00 AM GMT (Updated: 01:52:40.0) The Indonesian Navy recently lost a submarine that sank off the coast of Bali, which was found split into three pieces on the seabed, killing all the 53 sailors on board. 53 crew of lost naval submarine declared dead as Indonesia finds wreckage By Masrur Jamaluddin for CNN Updated 10:55 AM EDT, Sun ApLink Copied Ad Feedback Video Ad Feedback. Indonesia’s military said earlier it had picked up signs of an object with high magnetism at a depth of between 50 and 100 metres, fanning hopes of finding the submarine.īut the passing of Saturday’s oxygen deadline was likely to mean the Southeast Asian archipelago would be added to a list of countries struck by fatal submarine accidents.Īmong the worst was the 2000 sinking of the Kursk, the pride of Russia’s Northern Fleet.
Singapore’s MV Swift Rescue - a submarine rescue vessel - was expected later Saturday. On the morning of April 24 local time, the Indonesian Navy changed the status of its missing submarine, KRI Nanggala 402, from sub miss to sub sunk. Neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia, as well as the United States and Australia, were among nations helping in the hunt with nearly two dozen ships deployed to scour a search zone covering about 34 square kilometres.Īustralia’s HMAS Ballarat arrived on Saturday with a US P-8 Poseidon aircraft also helping to look for the craft. Search helicopters and ships continued to comb the waters off Bali Friday for the Indonesian navy submarine KRI Nanggala 402 that went missing Wednesday. The crew and officers on-board the Indonesian Cakra class submarine KRI Nanggala at the naval base in Surabaya. With just hours to spare until the oxygen runs out aboard a missing submarine, Indonesia's navy on Friday dispatched two ships and several.
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