TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsRescuers to recover wreckage of sunken ferry near Bali
The plan to recover the KNP Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry that sank in the Bali Strait was announced after joint search and rescue team confirmed the location of the wreck of the sunken vessel over the weekend.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
The KN SAR Arjuna 229 search and rescue boat sails in the Bali Strait on July 9 during a joint search and rescue mission to rescue victims and locate the KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry that sank on July 2, as seen from Boom Beach in Banyuwangi, East Java. (Antara/Budi Candra Setya)
A
uthorities are working to raise from the seafloor the KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry that sank on its way to Bali just before midnight on July 2, after the joint search and rescue team located the wreck of ship on the seabed of the Bali Strait.
The National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) would coordinate with port authorities and the Transportation Ministry regarding the next stage of victim evacuation and recovery of the shipwreck, the agency’s operation deputy Rear Adm. Ribut Eko Suyatno said during a press briefing on Sunday.
The operation to recover the wreck had passed the administrative phase, marked by local seaport authorities informing operators about the plan.
Tanjung Perak Seaport in Surabaya, East Java, had also notified ships in Ketapang Seaport in Banyuwangi to avoid the last known position of the sunken ferry. After that, relevant agencies would dispatch technical teams to draft a plan to raise the shipwreck.
Ribut acknowledged that the operation to recover the wreck would meet several challenges, ranging from weather to the strong current in the strait.
“The surface current is faster than 0.8 [knot]. We tried to send divers under, but they were immediately swept by the current,” the Navy’s rear admiral said during a press briefing on Sunday.
Read also: Wreck of Tunu Pratama Jaya ferry found upside down in Bali Strait
