Relatives pay respects to doomed submariners

Never forgotten: Naval officers throwing a flower garland into the sea at the port of Semarang in memory of the sailors who perished. — AFP

The Indonesian navy was trying to work out how it could salvage the remains of a submarine from the bottom of the Bali Sea and retrieve the bodies of the 53 sailors who died onboard.

The German-built KRI Nanggala 402 was discovered lying on the seabed on Sunday broken into at least three parts, four days after it lost contact while preparing to conduct a torpedo drill.