LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia — On the eleventh day of a painstaking search in Komodo National Park, rescue teams recovered a fragment of the sunken KM Putri Sakinah—a bathroom door—yet found no sign of the two boys who remain missing.
The discovery of the debris offered a tangible, if small, piece of the wreckage but underscored the frustrating elusiveness of the primary objective: finding the children.
The joint Search and Rescue (SAR) task force, utilizing sonar and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), conducted extensive sweeps around the islands near the Padar Strait sink site.
The search concluded at 5:00 p.m. local time on Monday without locating the two sons of Valencia CF coach Fernando Martín Carreras.
The bathroom door, believed to be from the ill-fated pinisi schooner, was retrieved by a port authority vessel at approximately 11:18 a.m. at coordinates roughly 0.12 nautical miles from the incident’s epicenter.
This find, while grimly confirming the vessel’s breakup, did little to advance the core mission.
The tragedy’s timeline remains agonizingly clear. The vessel sank on December 26, 2025. The coach’s 12-year-old daughter was recovered on December 29. The coach himself was found and identified on January 4.
With the father’s body now flown to Bali for repatriation, the search has narrowed with heartbreaking focus to his two sons, aged 9 and 10.
As operations resume for a twelfth day, the discovery of a single door amidst the vast, current-swept seascape highlights the immense challenge facing rescuers.
It is a reminder of the powerful forces that scattered the KM Putri Sakinah and continues to hold its last two missing passengers beyond reach.
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