A month-long effort had already hauled up "important materials" from the cracked submarine, it added, but the decision to halt the operation meant there was no chance of retrieving the sailors' bodies.
Trung Quốc được cho là không nổi tiếng về khả năng trục vớt tàu ở vùng biển nước sâu, nhưng là quốc gia đầu tiên ngỏ lời và điều tàu đến hỗ trợ Indonesia trục vớt chiếc tàu ngầm chở 53 người chìm hồi tháng trước.
Indonesian submarine rescue team lifts two life rafts from sea floor
Jakarta
Indonesia s navy said that an operation to retrieve parts of a submarine that sunk with 53 people on board last month has been able to pull up two life rafts from the bottom of the sea.
The German-made KRI Nanggala-402 lost contact during a torpedo firing exercise on April 21. An international search team involving Singapore, Australia and Malaysia found the submarine four days later, sunken and broken into three at a depth of more than 800 metres north of Bali, DPA reported.
Indonesian navy second fleet commander Rear Admiral Iwan Isnurwanto said on Tuesday that each of the life rafts weighed 700 kilograms.