From the news so far, most Australian warships crossing Indonesian waters are of large tonnage and equipped with facilities for supporting vehicles. Call it in this case the helipad and the helicopter and the hangar.
The same goes for the underwater survey vessel – hydro-oceanographic HMAS Melville (A 246) which on Thursday, July 14 was in the waters of Bali. Although the hydro-oceanographic vessel of the Leeuwin Class survey vessel was equipped with a helipad, however, on that voyage it did not carry a helicopter on board.
And as quoted from a press release from the Dispen Koarmada2 TNI AL, at that time an incident occurred that happened to one officer in HMAS Melville, namely Lt Cdr. Mohommed Zeed (35 years) suffered a heart attack when the ship was in the middle of the sea.
As a medical treatment, the patient must be referred to a hospital that has adequate medical equipment. It requires fast handling, while helicopters are not available, so the ship must try to dock to one of the closest ports.
However, again, docking requires a process and not necessarily the specifications of the ship in question are ideal for docking at the pier. In this situation, KRI Tongkol 813, which is currently under the Operational Control (BKO) of Guskamla Koarmada II, carried out a medical evacuation of the crew of HMAS Merville, which is an Australian Navy ship (Royal Australian Navy) in southern Bali waters.
The evacuation process was carried out after Pangkoarmada II received information from the Asops Kasal Admiral of the TNI, Dadi Hartanto, regarding the request for medical evacuation of the Australian warship crew.
Furthermore, Pangkoarmada II ordered Asops Pangkoarmada II Marine Colonel (F) Tunggul to coordinate the request for assistance from Australian Marine Attache Captain Rodney Griffiths, to evacuate one HMAS Merville personnel who had a heart attack to Denpasar.
When providing this information, HMAS Merville was in a position 70 nautical miles south of Benoa, which is moving towards Bali. Asops Pangkoarmada II then coordinated with Danguskamla Koarmada II to move KRI TKL from Mataram to the southern waters of Bali and Lanal Denpasar to prepare docking facilities and medical assistance on land.
KRI Tongkol then communicated with HMAS Merville, lowered a lifeboat to shift 1 patient and 1 doctor to Benoa. HMAS Merville personnel data Lt Cdr. Mohommed Zeed (Patient) aged 35 years stable status and Lt CDR Marc Dantol (Doctor). Currently the two Australians have carried out debarkation to the Denpasar Lanal accompanied by the Australian Sea Attaché.
A glimpse of HMAS Melville, the 2,170 tonne vessel launched by NQEA Australia's shipyard in Cairns on 23 June 1998 (entered service two years later), equipped with several state-of-the-art devices and sensors.
Mainly the STN Atlas 9600 ARPA navigation radar and sonar variants consisting of the C-Tech CMAS 36/39, Atlas Fansweep multibeam echo sounder and Atlas Hydrographic Deso single beam echo sounder. The sonar and sounder on board are said to be capable of mapping the seabed to a depth of 6,000 meters.
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| HMAS Merville A246 |
The HMAS Melville is powered by 4 x GEC Alsthom 6RK 215 diesel engines and 2 Alsthom electric propulsion motors. The ship's maximum speed is 14 knots, while its cruising range is 33,000 km at a speed of 9 knots.
Another advantage of this hydro-oceanographic ship is that it has a helipad deck for light helicopter landings. There are no helicopters specifically based on HMAS Melville, but periodically AS 350B Squirrel helicopters from 723 Squadron RAN often conduct landing exercises on this survey ship. In addition to HMAS Melville A246, there is HMAS Leeuwin A 245 which in 2019 had a friendly visit to Tanjung Priok.
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