FOUND - Argentine submarine goes missing with 44 crew members on board, November 2017

[Inthedetails]

Satellite calls did not come from missing Argentine submarine: navy spokesman

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...entine-submarine-navy-spokesman-idUSKBN1DK1KO



My thoughts are with the families...hope must be growing faint. moo

Oh! Crushing news.

 

[JerseyGirl]

A US Navy San Diego-based team has departed with a Submarine Rescue Chamber and four aircraft. The SRC uses advanced technology capable of reaching depths of 850 feet and rescuing six people at a time.

Sailors with the Undersea Rescue Command will join the Navy’s P-8A Poseidon plane and a NASA research aircraft, both already assisting in the search efforts near the sub’s last known location.

The US Navy also has deployed unmanned underwater vehicles, which can search a wide swath of the ocean using sonar technology. The Bluefin 12D, one of the unmanned vehicles, can search at a maximum depth of almost 5,000 feet for 30 hours.

Waves of up to 20 feet have complicated the rescue efforts; weather conditions were not expected to improve before Tuesday.

https://nypost.com/2017/11/20/us-navy-joins-search-for-missing-argentine-submarine/

 

[JerseyGirl]

Argentinian navy releases video of search for missing submarine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/nov/20/argentinian-navy-video-search-missing-submarine

A total of 13 ships and six aeroplanes are braving strong winds and high waves over an area of 66,000 sq km (25,500 sq miles) more than 400 km (250 miles) east of the bay of San Jorge off the coast of Patagonia in southern Argentina. Argentina’s navy said it was not sure what had happened to the submarine but said it was now convinced the ship was beneath the surface and not adrift on choppy seas, as was previously thought.

 

[Spellbound]

With short video of the search
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/20/missing-argentina-submarine-running-out-of-air-as-search-enters-critical-phase

[FONT=&quot]Argentina’s navy has detected sounds from the bottom of the ocean that could be from a submarine which has been missing in rough seas for five days, renewing hopes for the vessel and its 44 crew.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The sounds were detected by two Argentinian navy ships searching the area where ARA San Juan went missing and by sonar buoys dropped by a US P8 surveillance plane that has joined the search, said navy spokesperson Enrique Balbi.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]“The noise is permanent and repetitive. We have to wait, analyze and process the information,” Balbi said.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The news brought fresh hope after the navy warned that the five-day search had entered a “critical phase” because the submarine is approaching the probable limit of its oxygen reserves.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Earlier on Monday, Balbi told reporters that although the vessel has enough food and fuel to survive 90 days on the surface, it only had enough oxygen to survive for seven days underwater.[/FONT]

 

[Spellbound]

http://abcnews.go.com/International...reported-battery-electrical/story?id=51275038
Argentina's Navy said today that the search for a submarine missing since last week had been narrowed after two ships heard "noises" off the coast of Argentina.
Argentine ships looking for the ARA San Juan, an Argentine vessel with 44 crew members on board, picked up fairly persistent "noises" that were believed to have originated an area 224 miles east of Argentina's Valdes Peninsula, in an area with water believed with be around 650 feet deep, naval spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters in Buenos Aires.

Earlier today, the Navy said the commander of the missing had reported that the vessel was having trouble with its batteries and was experiencing an “electrical fault.”
The commander reported the issues in a satellite communication Wednesday morning, according to information from the U.S.-based satellite communications company Iridium, naval officials said.

 

[Jax49]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...ical-malfunction/ar-BBFlsev?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Argentine authorities were analyzing sounds detected by probes deep in the South Atlantic on Monday as they searched for a navy submarine that went missing five days ago after reporting an electrical malfunction.

"Special software is being used to study different sounds and acoustics," navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters in Buenos Aires. The probes are being carried out 360 km (223 miles) off the coast of Argentina and 200 meters (656 feet) down, he said.

 

[Yellow Rose]

Argentina is my adopted country because I went to middle school and high school there while my father served as attaché for John Davis Lodge, ambassador. So this one has me hook, line and sinker, ughhhhhh.

 

[Yellow Rose]

I wonder what has happened? Are the sailors okay for a good length of time?

 

[hayaletcatcher]

I wonder what has happened? Are the sailors okay for a good length of time?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ng-out-of-air-as-search-enters-critical-phase

"Earlier on Monday, Balbi told reporters that although the vessel has enough food and fuel to survive 90 days on the surface, it only had enough oxygen to survive for seven days underwater."

It's now day 5.

 

[Spellbound]

I keep hoping to come here and find they are being rescued. I cannot imagine how family members are feeling. My heart goes out to everyone affected.

 

[Tssiemer]

It’s 2017. How are we losing planes and submarines???


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[Hazelnutty]

Prayers for those onboard the submarine and their families

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[LadyL]

still hoping for a miraculous rescue

 

[CARIIS]

Argentinian navy releases video of search for missing submarine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/nov/20/argentinian-navy-video-search-missing-submarine

A total of 13 ships and six aeroplanes are braving strong winds and high waves over an area of 66,000 sq km (25,500 sq miles) more than 400 km (250 miles) east of the bay of San Jorge off the coast of Patagonia in southern Argentina. Argentina’s navy said it was not sure what had happened to the submarine but said it was now convinced the ship was beneath the surface and not adrift on choppy seas, as was previously thought.

ugh I almost got sea sick !!

That is not conforting video

 

[CARIIS]

levity break

just funny funny

[video=youtube;fEjag-a7TyU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEjag-a7TyU[/video]

 

[Wyle_E_Coyote]

Sounds that were detected during the search for a missing Argentine navy submarine did not come from the vessel, the navy said late Monday.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...ericas/argentina-missing-submarine/index.html



Lots of good info in this article, but too depressing to quote anything. [emoji852]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...s/argentina-submarine-what-we-know/index.html

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[JerseyGirl]

Argentina's first female submariner 'warned family of mechanical problems on board' just days before submarine went missing, as 'banging' noises are dismissed and crew have just two days of oxygen left

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...iner-warned-problems-board.html#ixzz4z4MsPWX3

 

[Jax49]

Argentina missing submarine: Concern grows after two false alarms

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-42064144

Argentina's navy says it will take advantage of improved weather conditions to further step up its search for a submarine that vanished last Wednesday in the Atlantic Ocean.



Strong winds and high waves have hampered the search for the ARA San Juan and its 44 crew in the past days.


On Monday, navy officials said that noises picked up by two search vessels did not come from the sub, dashing relatives' hopes for a speedy rescue.


It was the second false alarm.

 

[CARIIS]

Sadly I think the clock as passed.
Have wondered if it structurally failed (old old) and sank to the bottom and with the mood the ocean has been in anything that did rise could not be seen.

And yea they say 7 days and this stuff but this machine is old -- so I am not sure I am buying the time frames

i think it may have been crushed by outer pressure when accident sequence started


Super submarine knowledgeable poster -----Cryptic I think -- what is her crush depth?)

 

[CARIIS]

a mid-life update from 2008 to 2013 --work involved the replacement of the engines, batteries, and sonar..



single-hull design, with a lightweight bow and stern and a watertight superstructure in the central part. Its sister vessel, ARA Santa Cruz is the only other one of its type, though the program originally sought to produce a larger number of submarines.[SUP][3]

2014, Santa Cruz ran aground in an accident near Buenos Aires.[SUP][7][/SUP] She was being towed to Tandanor shipyard for maintenance, and was unlocked without damage.[SUP][8]

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[TD]12,000 nmi (22,000 km) at 8 kn (15 km/h) surfaced[/TD]
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[TD]Endurance:[/TD]
[TD]30 days[/TD]
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[TD]Complement:[/TD]
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https://www.google.com/search?q=San...84s_XAhVKOyYKHRa9BjcQ_AUIDCgD&biw=907&bih=441

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_Santa_Cruz_(S-41)[/SUP]