“This can be a learning point for the government to advance its military technology and be careful in how it uses its (existing) technology because its people’s lives are at stake,” said 29-year old resident Hein Ferdy Sentoso. Residents of Banyuwangi joined nationwide calls to accelerate the modernization of Indonesia’s defence forces. Indonesia police said it would deploy teams to Bali and the Java town of Banyuwangi, which hosts the naval base from where the main search and recovery operations are being conducted, to help identify the victims once the bodies are retrieved. Search teams said on Saturday they had found objects including prayer mat fragments near the submarine’s last known location, leading the navy to believe the vessel had cracked. “We hope that this will help the families find some closure and certainty on the fate of their loved ones,” he added. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.They hope that with the new technology they are using they will be able, not only to identify the lost submarines, but also to reveal new information that will help future generations understand what happened to the USS Grunion. It is a sacred spot and the Lost 52 Project is very conscious of that fact. Their final resting place is there on the ocean floor off of Alaska.
We must remember that when the Grunion went down, she took her 70 officers and sailors with her. Source: YouTube/Ocean OutreachĪfter nearly 80 years, the USS Grunion’s bow has been discovered. They will be able to study her more carefully now and learn more about what might have happened to her because of this.
You can see what that looks like in the attached video. With 3-D photography, they have been able to piece the wreckage fo the USS Grunion together for a fuller picture. It had broken off and slid down a steep volcanic slope off of the Aleutians. Recently, this year, with the help of autonomous underwater vehicles and using 3-D photography, they found her bow. The Lost 52 Project had found much of her wreckage a few years ago, but her bow was missing. She was declared “Lost” by the United States Navy on October 5, 1942. Something happened to her on her way there, for she was never heard from again. She was then ordered to Dutch Harbor in July. She arrived at Kiska, Alaska and soon had sunk two Japanese patrol boats off of the Aleutian chain. The Grunion made it to Pearl Harbor and was then ordered to the Aleutian Islands in June of 1942. The bow of the USS Grunion outlined by 3D imaging. While in the Caribbean on her way to Pearl, she participated in the rescue of soldiers who had been aboard a United States Transport Ship (USAT) that had been sunk by a German U-Boat. After her commissioning on the East Coast, she was ordered to Pearl Harbor.
She carried a crew of 70 officers and sailors. The USS Grunion was commissioned on April 11, 1942. This year, the complete wreckage of the USS Grunion SS-216 was found off the coast of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The Lost 52 Project is an organization dedicated to finding and recording the 52 United States submarines that were listed as lost during WWII.
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