Tag: ARA San Juan

• Tuesday, November 28th 2017 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine navy reveals water entered the submarine's snorkel causing battery short circuit

  

  Water entered the snorkel of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, causing its battery to short-circuit before it went missing November 15, a navy spokesman said on Monday as hope dwindled among some families of the 44-member crew.

• Saturday, November 25th 2017 - 23:13 UTC

  Russian naval specialists arrive in Ushuaia to help with missing submarine search

  

  An Antonov-124 Ruslan airlifter has flown a team of Russian naval specialists to Argentina where they will join the efforts to rescue the distressed submarine, ARA San Juan missing since November 15. Argentine channel Todo Noticias aired the footage of the jet’s landing.

• Saturday, November 25th 2017 - 08:21 UTC

  Macri promises the truth about what happened with the missing submarine

  

  President Mauricio Macri on Friday ordered an inquiry to ‘know the truth’ about what happened to Argentina's missing submarine, ARA San Juan, which disappeared with the loss of its 44 crew. The 34-year-old submarine had gone through a refit and was ‘in perfect condition,’ Macri told reporters at the Argentine navy headquarters.

• Friday, November 24th 2017 - 08:58 UTC

  Argentine submarine crew families have been told their loved ones “are all dead”

  

  Families of crew lost in the Argentine ARA San Juan submarine have been told their loved ones “are all dead” after an explosion on the day the vessel disappeared, according to reports. Family members claimed on Thursday they had already received phone calls from Navy officials telling them the entire crew had perished in a blast, believed to have taken place between 180m and 900m below the surface.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:29 UTC

  Missing submarine search returns to the point where the last contacts were made

  

  Ships and planes hunting for the missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members will return to a previous search area after officials said Wednesday that a noise made a week ago in the South Atlantic could provide a clue to the vessel’s location.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2017 - 08:19 UTC

  Putin talks to Macri and sends a oceanographic vessel to help with the search

  

  Russia has agreed to dispatch an oceanographic ship to Argentina in order to help with the search for the missing Argentine submarine, ARA San Juan, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday following a telephone conversation between Russian and Argentine presidents Vladimir Putin and Mauricio Macri.

• Wednesday, November 22nd 2017 - 07:02 UTC

  Time and oxygen running out for Argentine missing submarine in the South Atlantic

  

  Ships and planes combed a wider area of the stormy South Atlantic on Tuesday in a fruitless hunt for signs of a missing Argentine submarine, adding to growing concerns about the vessel not heard from in six days. Argentine navy officials have worried that if the ARA San Juan was intact but disabled underwater, its crew of 44 might have only enough oxygen to last seven days.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2017 - 08:26 UTC

  Hopes to find missing submarine ARA San Juan fading after five days

  

  Argentine submarine ARA San Juan reported an electrical problem and was headed back to base when it went missing last week in the South Atlantic, the navy said on Monday, while storms complicated efforts to find the vessel and its 44 crew members.

• Tuesday, November 21st 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Britain sends special highly skilled unit SPAG, to help with the submarine search

  

  Britain has increased efforts to help find the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in the vast stormy South Atlantic. HMS Protector, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol ship, is now in the search area where the submarine last made contact on Wednesday.

• Monday, November 20th 2017 - 07:43 UTC

  US Navy sending deep-sea rescue equipment to assist in search for ARA San Juan

  

  The United States Navy has sent rescue equipment and crew to assist in the search for a missing Argentine Navy submarine and its 44 crew members. The San Diego based Undersea Rescue Command (URC) departed from Miramar Saturday with a Submarine Rescue Chamber (SRC) and four aircraft, en route to the Southern Atlantic, where the submarine A.R.A. San Juan lost contact with the Argentine Navy on Wednesday.