CNA Online
27 April 2021
- RSIS
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- Indonesia Submarine Tragedy Exposes Painful Realities of International Rescue perations
Indonesia Submarine Tragedy Exposes Painful Realities of International Rescue perations
The tragic loss of KRI Nanggala lays bare the limits to international cooperation on submarine rescue, says Dr Collin Koh, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, a constituent unit of RSIS based in NTU, in a commentary. The writer noted that immediately upon receipt of the Indonesian request, Singapore dispatched the navy’s submarine support and rescue vessel MV Swift Rescue, which mounts a Deep Search and Rescue 6 deep-submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) that very afternoon on Apr 21.
…Dr Collin Koh is Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, a constituent unit of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies based in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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