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Indonesia has ended its efforts to salvage the remains of a navy submarine that sank off the coast of Bali on 21 April, killing all 53 crew on board.

The KRI Nanggala disappeared after requesting permission to dive during live torpedo exercises in the Bali Sea.

The 40-year-old vessel was found days later, split into three parts.

Efforts have so far failed to retrieve the wreckage from a depth of more than 800m (2,600 ft). The cause of the disaster is still being investigated.

"The salvage is over," navy spokesman Julius Widjojono told the Reuters news agency.

The joint Indonesia-China team dived 20 times to collect photos, videos and parts of the sunken sub, the Indonesian navy said in a statement.

None of the bodies of the 53 on board have been retrieved.
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Unfortunately it appears that they will not be recovering the submarine. This calls into question China's ability to handle a similar event occurring to one of its submarines, particularly given that modern Chinese submarines are significantly larger than the 1300-ton Nanggala.
 
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Unfortunately it appears that they will not be recovering the submarine. This calls into question China's ability to handle a similar event occurring to one of its submarines, particularly given that modern Chinese submarines are significantly larger than the 1300-ton Nanggala.
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Or maybe China is only willing to do so much for free. Not enough details to know
 
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Unfortunately it appears that they will not be recovering the submarine. This calls into question China's ability to handle a similar event occurring to one of its submarines, particularly given that modern Chinese submarines are significantly larger than the 1300-ton Nanggala.
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Until the pressure hull could be located would China's ability be called into question.
 
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Until the pressure hull could be located would China's ability be called into question.
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Let the sleeping secrets lie.

I got doubts about the underwater tidal wave theory that the Indonesian Navy put forth as the official explanation for the sub's sinking. I would think the circumstances are more similar to the sinking of the Argentinian submarine --- mechanical malfunction leading to fire --- or that of the Kursk --- torpedo exploded. Whatever the causes it is going to be embarrassing to those in charge in the Indonesian Navy.
 
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Thats should be PLAN's annual far seas exercise for building a "blue-water" navy. Would be interesting if we had information on what changed from their previous years exercises
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  • Fleet travelled through Celebes Sea and into the western Pacific, where the US territory of Guam sits
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The Southern Theatre Command of the PLA said on Saturday that a fleet under its command had travelled more than 6,700 nautical miles (12,400km) over the past month, passing through the Celebes Sea – which separates Indonesia and the Philippines – and the western Pacific.
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exercise had included more than 20 drills including anti-missile and anti-aircraft exercises.
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Japan’s Ministry of Defense’s Integrated Staff and Supervision Department announced on June 1 that the Japanese Self-Defense Forces discovered 3 ships heading eastward at about 8 am on May 31 in the waters about 240 kilometers west of Yakushima (located in the south of Kagoshima). Row of Chinese navy ships.

According to photos released by the Ministry of Defense of Japan, the three Chinese naval ships are the 052D destroyer Taiyuan, the 054A frigate Xiangtan, and the 903A large integrated supply ship Chaohu.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Japan, the Chinese warship sailed eastward along the Osumi Strait to the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force dispatched the "Ise" helicopter carrier of the 2nd escort and the P-1 patrol aircraft of the 1st aviation group against the Chinese warships. Necessary intelligence collection and vigilance surveillance were carried out.

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Japanese "Ise" helicopter carrier:
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Ise officially known as "multi-purpose operation destroyer" not "helicopter carrier". Sorry.
 
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The assets seen in photos and videos of the wreck site seem to have nothing that can lift large parts of a sunken submarine. The submarine is also much deeper than the depth where even hard suited divers can operate. It seem a single deep submersible could hardly arrange to connect the major hull sections to any lifting device in just a few weeks. So it seems to me at most this was an explorative effort to see if the submarine could be lifted or would be worth lifting, not to actually lift the submarine.
 
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“The complicated military situation presents a great challenge to the will and perseverance of the officers and
soldiers,” the command said on its social media account.
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I wonder why the article uses the word "soldiers" instead of sailors & marines, as if there's no distinction between them.
 
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