More than a dozen helicopters and ships are searching the area where contact was lost, with the United States, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and India providing assistance. Margono said on Saturday that a sonar scan had detected a submarine-like object at 850 metres (2,790 feet), beyond the Nanggala's diving range. Search teams said on Saturday they had found objects including prayer mat fragments and a bottle of periscope lubricant near the submarine's last known location, leading the navy to believe the vessel had cracked. President Joko Widodo earlier confirmed the discovery in the Bali Sea and sent the families of the victims his condolences. 'All of us Indonesians express our deep sorrow over this tragedy, especially to the families of the submarine crew.' Grayback's demise.įor further reading, we previously reported on another online advertisement that appeared to show the Russian Kalinin K-7 heavy bomber.'The KRI Nanggala is divided into three parts, the hull of the ship, the stern of the ship, and the main parts are all separated, with the main part found cracked,' he said. That photograph had nothing to do with the U.S.S. However, someone was paying to advertise a misleading picture of a Russian nuclear submarine next to the story. In sum, it's true a missing submarine that had a crew of 80 sailors was found, all of whom perished decades earlier when it was bombed and destroyed during World War II. It also showed the moment that some relatives learned that it had been found. And it did not match what was in the 1949 Navy history, not by a hundred miles.ĪBC News aired an exclusive report that showed video footage of the submarine on the ocean floor. “In that radio record, there is a longitude and a latitude of the attack, very clearly,” Mr. The sub exploded and sank immediately, and there were no survivors. The report for that day said that a Nakajima B5N carrier-based bomber had dropped a 500-pound bomb on a surfaced submarine, striking just aft of the conning tower. The files included daily reports received by radio from the naval air base at Naha, Okinawa - and the entry for Feb. The error went undetected until last year, when an American undersea explorer asked a researcher, Yutaka Iwasaki, to go through the wartime records of the Imperial Japanese Navy base at Sasebo. But the Navy had unknowingly relied on a flawed translation of Japanese war records that got one digit wrong in the latitude and longitude of the spot where the Grayback had probably met its end. The Grayback was thought to have gone down in the open ocean 100 miles east-southeast of Okinawa. 10, 2019, The New York Times reported that it all came down to reliance on 'a flawed translation of Japanese war records.' Why did it take so long for undersea explorers to find it? On Nov. Grayback under 1,400 feet of water after it was discovered off the Okinawa cost on June 5, 2019. Six have been found in the decades since, and now the Grayback can be added to the list of subs whose demise is no longer a mystery.' submarines reported missing during the great conflict. Department of Defense: 'It was one of 52 U.S. Why the number '52' for the Lost 52 Project? According to the U.S. It had 80 sailors for its crew when it was destroyed. Grayback after the American submarine had gone missing around February 1944. The Lost 52 Project aims to find all lost World War II submarines. The ad itself didn't mention World War II or the name of the vessel, so it potentially led some readers to believe that a submarine that was lost for a short period of time was found with 80 sailors still alive. However, the real story had nothing to do with the misleading picture of the Russian submarine. GraybackĪs mentioned before, a missing submarine with 80 sailors was found, and experts did indeed discover the truth about what happened to it. According to a Russian report, repairs were estimated at 1 billion rubles, which converted to near $13.8 million USD. The fire explained why the submarine appeared heavily damaged in the ad. According to a Reddit comment, a video showed the same fire. The vessel in the ad was the same nuclear submarine that Reuters reported caught fire on Dec. The person on the right provided perspective.

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