Family's Tears Broke See Kri Nanggala-402 Debris Lifted, Really?

Illustration-KRI Nanggala-402 that lost contact in Bali Waters. (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Recently social media was flooded with the writing of an article titled 'The Cry of The Families of The Victims Broke, The Evacuation Team Managed to Lift the Debris kri Nanggala 402 to the Surface.'

This article was posted on haimoms.blogspot.com website on May 1, 2021. In the article there is a photo of the wreck of a submarine that has just been lifted to the surface. At the top of the ship is written 402 circled in red.

The photo also shows a number of women, one of whom is crying. There were also two women who were hugging.

Photo: haimoms.blogspot.com

Reported from turnbackhoaks.id, the fact of the photo as well as the news is the content that is manipulated.

"It's an edited photo. The photo was edited by adding the inscription 402 on the photo of the wreck of russia's K-141 Kursk submarine that was destroyed in a massive explosion on August 12, 2000," turnbackhoaks.id wrote.

Reported from Tempo, the submarine photo seen in the video thumbnail is identical to the photo posted by Russian-language site Oir Mobi in his February 18, 2020 article entitled 'Kursk Submarine'.

However, in this photo, there is no visible writing 402 on the top of the ship. The same photo was posted by Tempo on April 24, 2021 in an article titled '6 Worst Submarine Accidents in History'.

"According to tempo news archive, Kursk accident is considered one of the worst submarine disasters experienced by Russia. The K-141 Kursk, a Project 949A Antey-class (Oscar II) nuclear-powered missile submarine weighing 16,000 tons, was destroyed in a massive explosion on August 12, 2000."

The blast killed 118 of the submarine's crew. The Kursk submarine sank during a Navy North Fleet exercise in the Barents Sea.

Quoted by the Moscow Times, an official investigation concluded that the failure of one of Kursk's hydrogen peroxide-fueled torpedoes triggered the explosion. The Kursk submarine disaster sparked widespread public criticism of the Russian government and navy.