Indonesia's Tanker Ships Collide With Dominican Republic's Dredged Ships in the Singapore Strait

Search and rescue operations were under way to search for five crew members missing after a tanker and dredger collided on Wednesday, September 13, 2017, at around 00:45 am.

The collision occurred between an Indonesian-flagged Kartika Segara tanker with a Dominican-flagged JBB De Rong dredger which lasted about 1.7 nautical miles southwest of Sister Island, Singapore. Precisely, the ship MV Kartika Segara type tanker and ship JBB DE Rong type dredger collide in the position 01 01 11.11N 103 49.87E 12 pob area of ​​the Strait of Singapore.
As a result of the collision, the Dominica dredgers were turned upside down and some of the ship's body was submerged.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) stated there were 26 crew on Indonesian Tanker ship and all survived. Of the 12 dredgers, 11 are Chinese and one Malaysian. Seven of the injured were rescued by the Singapore Police Coast Guards and taken to Singapore General Hospital. Five other people were declared missing and five survivors have been sent homeThe tanker is reportedly damaged in its right arc but can be anchored in the East Port. As stated by Ambassador Ngurah,

         "Indonesia's own tanker, he added, suffered damage on the right front of the ship.                   The condition of the ship in a stable state and anchored anchorage eastern                           anchorage," he said.

The Singapore authorities directly conduct a search operation. Channel News Asia announces that the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) is leading the search operation against five crew of the lost Dominican ship.In fact, the Singapore Navy joined hands by lowering 3 patrol boats. Not only that, one helicopter belonging to AU Singapore was also deployed to search from the air. To help search the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) Tanjungpinang fielded KN SAR Purworejo and Navy down three KRI namely KRI Surik, KRI Parang, and KRI Parangsang.

Head of Basarnas Office Tanjungpinang Djunaidi confirmed today the SAR team of Singapore and Indonesia are conducting a search for victims of the collision.
He said, for now the position of MV Kartika Segara vessel has been successfully evacuated to the East Port of Singapore, while the current JBB Rong 19 ship almost drowned around the position of the waters of Pulau Senang.

         "While we do the search assistance of five crew ship JBB DE Rong 19 is still missing,"           said Djunaidi when contacted by phone.
He submitted, a search from the Singapore side dropped a helicopter Rescue 10 Singapore, MPA 3, MPA 4, MPA 8, PSG Craft Coast Guard, PT65, PT53, PH53 SDDF Craft, Navi Craft, RSAF Air craft, 4 tugboats, and 1 tugboat diving .
         "Searching is still going on, there will be progress we will report again," said Djunaidi.