Indonesia in race against time to find missing submarine | DW News

indonesian navy ships are desperately searching for a submarine that has gone missing with 53 people on board authorities say the submarine's oxygen supply will only last until saturday prompting fears that it could soon be too late to save lives the navy says the sub has probably sunk 700 meters below the ocean surface it's a race against time and against the ocean's depths the kri nangala 402 may have sunk too deep to be retrieved on board are 53 crew members and very limited oxygen reserves searches are focusing on this area about 100 kilometers north of bali the submarine was conducting a missile firing exercise here when contact broke off officials say a power outage may have occurred causing a loss of control the submarine's oxygen reserve capacity in a power outage is 72 hours or about three days [Music] so starting from when it lost contact on wednesday around 3 am it could last until saturday at 3 am let's hope we can find them before then indonesia has deployed several navy ships neighboring malaysia and singapore have also joined the operation and other countries are offering help an oil spill and the submerged and highly magnetic object in the area of the submarine's last dive has rescuers hoping they're on the right track but if the submarine has sunk too deep it may be impossible for the rescuers to operate president yoko widodo said the government is doing everything in its power to get the crew back alive i ask all indonesian people to pray that this search and rescue operation runs smoothly and easily to find kri nangala 402 and all of its crew in a safe condition officials say the submarine was in a good state after 40 years of service in indonesia it may have fallen prey to the same waters it's been defending you

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Published: Fri Apr 23 2021