Oceanic internal solitary waves at the Indonesian submarine wreckage site |
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Authors: | Yankun Gong Jieshuo Xie Jiexin Xu Zhiwu Chen Yinghui He Shuqun Cai |
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Institution: | 1.State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China2.Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China3.Institution of South China Sea Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China4.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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Abstract: | On 21 April 2021 local time (20 April UTC), the Indonesian Navy submarine (KRI Nanggala-402) sank near the Lombok Strait, ~100 km north of the Bali Island (see magenta star in Fig. 1a), with 53 crew members dead. On the basis of Moderate Resolu-tion Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite images (Jack-son, 2007), NASA demonstrated that powerful "underwater waves" happened in the treacherous region and likely hit the ves-sel resulting in its disappearance (https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992496772/). Besides, NASA reported that the collapse depth of submarine KRI Nanggala-402 was ~200 m, but official reports on the local underwater waves and the voyage depth of the submar-ine were still lacking. This phenomenon was referred to as ocean-ic internal solitary waves (hereinafter ISWs). An important beha-viour of ISWs is causing large vertical displacements and down-ward currents in a short time in the ocean interior, and therefore may drag the submarine down to the collapse depth (i.e., ~200 m), where the water pressure exceeds the endurance limit of the sub-marine. |
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