{"id":4123,"date":"2026-01-05T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:21:54","slug":"search-day-11-bathroom-door-recovered-but-no-trace-of-missing-valencia-coachs-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/search-day-11-bathroom-door-recovered-but-no-trace-of-missing-valencia-coachs-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"Search Day 11: Bathroom Door Recovered, But No Trace of Missing Valencia Coach\u2019s Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 On the eleventh day of a painstaking search in Komodo National Park, rescue teams recovered a fragment of the sunken\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/ntt-police-to-name-suspects-as-soon-as-possible-in-fatal-komodo-boat-sinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3872\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KM Putri Sakinah<\/a><\/em>\u2014a bathroom door\u2014yet found no sign of the two boys who remain missing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The search concluded at 5:00 p.m. local time on Monday without locating the two sons of Valencia CF coach Fernando Mart\u00edn Carreras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bathroom door, believed to be from the ill-fated\u00a0<em>pinisi<\/em>\u00a0schooner, was retrieved by a port authority vessel at approximately 11:18 a.m. at coordinates roughly 0.12 nautical miles from the incident&#8217;s epicenter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This find, while grimly confirming the vessel&#8217;s breakup, did little to advance the core mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tragedy&#8217;s timeline remains agonizingly clear. The vessel sank on December 26, 2025. The coach\u2019s 12-year-old daughter was recovered on December 29. The coach himself was found and identified on January 4. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the father&#8217;s body now flown to Bali for repatriation, the search has narrowed with heartbreaking focus to his two sons, aged 9 and 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a reminder of the powerful forces that scattered the\u00a0<em>KM Putri Sakinah<\/em>\u00a0and continues to hold its last two missing passengers beyond reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"461\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608866040-1422369869238989-4259461047010419301-n-695b8fb6534b9-461x1024.webp\" alt=\"Search Day 11: Bathroom Door Recovered, But No Trace of Missing Valencia Coach\u2019s Sons\" class=\"wp-image-4124\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608866040-1422369869238989-4259461047010419301-n-695b8fb6534b9-461x1024.webp 461w, https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608866040-1422369869238989-4259461047010419301-n-695b8fb6534b9-135x300.webp 135w, https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608866040-1422369869238989-4259461047010419301-n-695b8fb6534b9-150x333.webp 150w, https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/608866040-1422369869238989-4259461047010419301-n-695b8fb6534b9.webp 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Search Day 11: Bathroom Door Recovered, But No Trace of Missing Valencia Coach\u2019s Sons (Heybali)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/heybali.info\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#Heybalinews<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia\u00a0\u2014 On the eleventh day of a painstaking search in Komodo National Park, rescue teams recovered a fragment of the sunken\u00a0KM Putri Sakinah\u2014a bathroom door\u2014yet found no sign of the two boys who remain missing. 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