I have no idea about subs, other than what I have seen in the movies.
What would cause it to be that deep and unable to rise? Can you even get that deep to bring them air? Would someone go down and attach to rescue people or would they try to affect repairs?
I imagine sitting down there like that would be akin to being trapped in a mine.
Maybe they were not running at 250 but needed up at 250 which for out guys isn’t that big of a deal.
Also,Its akin to being trapped in a submerged sub.
The US has developed equipment for extracting personnel at these depths. The Argentines are in highly capable hands.
There are rescue vehicles that - if nearly everything is perfect and the sub hatches are not broken and jammed- could be flown that far south, carried to a rescue ship, get taken to the sub loss site, dive and maybe recover some of the surviors. Look up dsrv.
They reported an electrical failure, possibly batteries before they disappeared.
No electricity to run the pumps to evacuate the ballast tanks.
No electricity to run the props.
Yes we have divers that can go 230 feet down but not for long, since the decompression takes hours.
I am assuming that there must be some kind of emergency connection that can be made to get them O2................
Battery failure on a diesel electric is a big deal and there’s reason to believe that that happened.
If we can get a DSRV (a small purpose-built rescue submarine) down to them, then they can be brought out a few at a time and shuttled to the surface.
This article is from the 19th - I posted it on another thread. In the article, they describe some of the resources that the US Navy has for rescuing trapped submariners .....
From link:
On Saturday, the Undersea Rescue Comand, or URC, shipped out two “independent rescue assets” from San Diego en route to the Southern Atlantic, where the Argentine Navy lost communications with one of its submarines. They are expected to arrive on Sunday, officials said.
The highly trained American sailors will employ advanced technology on the Submarine Rescue Chamber, or SRC, which has already been in touch with the family members of the 44 on board, and will utilize an underwater system called Remotely Operated Vehicle, or ROV. It can climb down to depths of 850-feet and pull to safety “up to six persons at a time,” the Pentagon officials said.
The sailors will also be relying on Pressurized Rescue Module, or PRM, which can rescue “up to 16 personnel at a time ... by sealing over the submarine’s hatch allowing sailors to safely transfer to the recuse chamber,” according to officials.
The American reinforcements will join the Navy’s P-8A Poseidon multi-mission maritime aircraft and a NASA P-3 research aircraft that have been assisting the ongoing search for the ARA San Juan, a German-built TR 1700 class diesel-electric submarine.
The good ‘old’ Glomar Explorer could have brought it up intact.
scrapped in China...alas
My sweetie is a Sub-Guy. Depending on how deep they are, the American subs are built to allow for people to escape & the guys are trained to do that. But 400 feet is about the max. The Kursk was at that level, but they had no means to get out.
Lots of things can go wrong on a sub. I sure hope these guys can be rescued.