We found it ... !!
Posted on 11/22/2017 6:57:42 AM PST by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Missing Argentine submarine 'is located by US Navy and a new sonar signal heard' as rescuers race to the spot with oxygen due to run out imminently
The missing Argentine submarine may have been located early this morning, after a US Navy aircraft allegedly detected a 'heat stain' from 230ft below the surface, some 185miles from the coast, and a rescue vessel separately reported hearing a sonar signal.
The ARA San Juan was sailing from Ushuaia to Mar del Plata when it disappeared with 44 crew members last Wednesday, including Argentina's first female submariner Eliana Krawczyk, 35, and Luis Niz, 25, who is due to get married in two weeks time.
The crew's oxygen supply was due to run out this morning as they only had enough on board to last seven days - leaving the international rescue mission racing against time to the spot where the signals were detected.
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We found it ... !!
This can be a good Thanksgiving story - hope it turns out well for all concerned and that the Argentines give thanks for their friends in need, the Americans.
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.
We pray they get rescued.
God bless the U.S. Navy!
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.
I HAVE been in mines. Never been in a sub.
I wouldn’t want to spend much time in either.
I certainly hope they found it and hope that they get the sailors to safety but the first sentence of the story contradicts the headline. It says they ‘may have found it’.
The US has developed equipment for extracting personnel at these depths. The Argentines are in highly capable hands.
Hoping and praying it’s true!
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.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/22/09/4673F36300000578-5106689-The_ARA_San_Juan_pictured_has_been_missing_for_a_week_after_repo-a-2_1511343484075.jpg
Looks like the DailyMail is blocked. :(
Even if we get them all out alive they will still hate our guts.
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................
I am impressed with the dailymail.co.uk site, not so much for its politics but for its hugeness and the enormous amount of pictures it supplies with many of the articles. There must be a lot of people that maintain that site.
Hopefully
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.
I don't want to either get hopes up or dash them, but if this is 185 miles off shore then the water is a whole lot deeper than 230 feet.
"...missing submarine..."
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