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5 min readIn April 2021, the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala 402 vanished during live torpedo training exercises 100 kilometers off the north coast of Bali, carrying 53 crew members. By April 23rd, the crew's oxygen reserves were estimated depleted. Two days later, the vessel was found at 2,600 feet below the sea, cracked open and split in three. The Indonesian Navy Chief of Staff declared the ship had been in perfect condition before departure. But according to the narrator—whose father worked on a secret project aboard that submarine—the official story conceals something far darker.
The Edgewood Arsenal Experiments and Project Eden
The narrator's father was a human geneticist recruited into a classified offshoot of the Edgewood Arsenal human experiments, which officially ended in 1975 but secretly continued and intensified. The Cold War concern was how to fight in environments contaminated by nuclear fallout. Standard protective gear proved futile against gamma rays, so researchers turned to "mutation breeding"—genetically modifying humans to survive intense radiation. The project was outsourced to the Indonesian military as cover, conducted aboard submarines that could remain submerged for years, ensuring secrecy and a built-in fail-safe: if something went catastrophically wrong, the evidence could be lost instantly. The core of this work was code-named Eden.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:05) **The Disappearance of KRI Nanggala 402** - An Indonesian submarine carrying 53 people vanishes off the coast of Bali during a torpedo training exercise, found days later cracked open at 2,600 feet.
- 2 (02:20) **Project Edgewood: The Secret Human Experiments** - The host reveals that the Edgewood Arsenal human experiments continued in secret long after the official end date in 1975, focused on genetic modification for radiation resistance.
- 3 (06:08) **Human Mutation Breeding and Ion Beam Technology** - The project intensified testing to genetically modify humans, using ion beam technology to cause more drastic DNA breaks and enable more extreme genetic changes.
- 4 (10:06) **The Cover Story: Indonesian Submarines as Labs** - The United States outsourced the cover to the Indonesian government, labeling the vessels as part of the Indonesian National Military Naval Forces to hide the true purpose.
- 5 (11:08) **The First Generation: Forced Breeding and Radiation** - Women were artificially impregnated, exposed to repeated non-lethal radiation doses, and their reproductive organs were continuously examined for damage.
- 6 (13:24) **The Second Generation: Compound Genetic Mutation** - The second generation focused on cultivating desirable traits from survivors, with the first generation allowed to provide parental care for proper development.
- 7 (15:52) **The Third Generation: Gigantism and Uncontrollable Growth** - The second generation's pregnancies produced fetuses a third larger than normal, with thicker umbilical cords and accelerated growth that threatened to kill the mothers.
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I found the Nanggala 402, I really wished I hadn't..
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