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Submarine missing12/19/2023 ![]() The ship was abandoned by the crew and Navy civilian personnel, who were rescued by nearby naval vessels. Navy research submarine USS Dolphin experienced severe flooding and fires off the coast of San Diego, California. Coast Guard directly responded, survivors resorted to automatically deployed life rafts from Ehime Maru.Ģ002 USS Dolphin major flooding and fire These were cited as reasons for the submarine captain's choosing to stand off and remain close by. Weather conditions were producing 8-to-12-foot (2.4 to 3.7 m) waves and the submarine's partially surfaced condition prevented the opening of deck hatches. The Navy and the command of Greeneville have been criticized for making no immediate attempt to help the Japanese on Ehime Maru that survived the initial collision. ![]() The collision occurred while members of the public were on board the submarine observing an emergency surface drill.Ī naval inquiry found that the accident was the result of poorly executed sonar sweeps, an ineffective periscope search by the submarine's captain, Commander Scott Waddle, bad communication among the crew and distractions caused by the presence of the 16 civilian guests aboard the submarine. On 9 February 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally struck and sank a Japanese high-school fisheries training ship, Ehime-Maru, killing nine of the thirty-five Japanese aboard, including four students, 10 miles (16 km) off the coast of Oahu. The KRI Nanggala-402 took part in the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training joint exercise with the US Navy in 2002 in the Java Sea and Bali Strait, and in a joint Indonesian military exercise in the Indian Ocean in 2004.Greeneville in drydock at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 2001 after hitting and sinking Ehime Maru. The submarine was retrofitted in South Korea in 2009 with a new diesel engine, can travel up to 21.5 knots and is armed with 14 torpedoes. The country's defense ministry said in a statement that the navy from several other countries, including Singapore, Australia and India, have offered assistance following the Indonesian navy’s international submarine distress call. “With the oil spill spotted near its dive location, there could have been a leak from its fuel tank due to the seawater pressure,” Widjojono said. The submarine, produced by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, had been in service with the Indonesian navy since 1981. ![]() That would have resulted in it becoming uncontrollable and its crew unable to propel it to the surface. “At 7 a.m., a helicopter spotted an oil spill near the submarine’s dive location,” Widjojono said.Įarlier, he said that it was a critical time for rescue as a submarine can be without contact from its base for a maximum of three hours.īased on preliminary assessments, Widjojono said the submarine could have dived 600-700 meters deep - the vessel’s maximum submergence is 250 meters - following a blackout during a static dive. The navy deployed a search party involving a number of ships and used a side-scan sonar but failed to locate the vessel, one of five submarines operated by Indonesia. local time to conduct a torpedo-firing exercise, First Admiral Julius Widjojono told Arab News. The German-made submarine, KRI Nanggala-402, lost contact 60 miles north off the island of Bali soon after it was cleared to dive at 4 a.m. JAKARTA: Indonesia’s navy has intensified its search for a submarine that went missing with 53 people on board on Wednesday, after an oil spill was detected where the vessel dived, a navy spokesman said.
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