Navy to probe death of two sailors in submarine exercise

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The Indonesian Navy says it has formed a team to investigate the deaths of two sailors during an exercise on the submarine KRI Cakra on Saturday.

“We are still waiting for the result of the investigation to find out the cause of the accident,” Commodore Darwanto, the chief of staff of the Navy’s Eastern Fleet Command, said, after the funeral of one of the sailors, Lt. Col. Eko Idang Prabowo, at Juanda Navy Cemetery in Sidoarjo, East Java, on Sunday. Idang and Col. Jeffrey S Stanley died during an exercise while the submarine was at sea off the coast of Pasir Putih near Situbondo, East Java.

It was the first at-sea exercise held by the Eastern Fleet in escape, search and rescue techniques for submarine crews in emergency situations.

Eastern Fleet commander Rear Adm. Agung Pramono visited the sailors prior to the exercise.

The entire crew of the KRI Cakra, including Idang and Jeffry, had completed confined-space evacuation exercises at the Eastern Fleet’s Underwater Rescue Agency.

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