Tag: ARA San Juan search operation

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 23:38 UTC

  The last Kirchner government taught a generation of Falkland Islanders not to trust Argentina

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmaker MLA Roger Spink in his Tuesday speech before the UN Committee on decolonization called on the Argentine representatives to leave aside colonial and conquering wishes over the Islands and start behaving as a 21st-century member of the world community, respecting democratic rights and living and working in harmony with regional neighbours.

• Saturday, May 18th 2019 - 11:50 UTC

  ARA San Juan: Argentine defense minister triggers further controversy as to the loss of the submarine

  

  Argentina's Defense Minister Oscar Aguad, quoting reports from experts, said on Friday that the sinking of the ARA San Juan submarine in November 2017 was caused by a “lack of training” and “capabilities.”

• Monday, February 25th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  UK's Falklands garrison force travels to Argentina for Search and Rescue exercises

  

  The new Commander of British Forces South Atlantic Islands, CBFSAI, Brigadier Nick Sawyer said that a small team of his garrison will be travelling to Argentina, at the end of the month, for search and rescue exercises, as part of the (UK, Argentina and Falklands) shared humanitarian values and responsibility in and around the South Atlantic area that extends to Antarctica.

• Friday, January 4th 2019 - 03:06 UTC

  The Falkland Islander that helped search for the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan

  

  Everybody is aware of the recent hunt for the lost Argentine submarine San Juan, but what only a few know is that Falkland maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound was one of the team on board the Seabed Constructor, the ship that conducted the search.

• Friday, November 16th 2018 - 18:18 UTC

  Macri vows not to give up on ARA San Juan but knows words can't heal pain

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri that nothing he would “say could take away the pain” off relatives and friends of the 44 crewmembers of the ARA San Juan submarine which was last heard of on November 15, 2017.

• Sunday, November 11th 2018 - 22:30 UTC

  Navy withheld British minisub offer to find ARA San Juan, Argentine Defense Minister Oscar Aguad admits

  

  Argentina last year chose to turn down a British offer of a minisub to search submarine ARA San Juan, it was reported Sunday. The then Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Marcelo Srur failed to convey the British offer December 5 last to Defense Minister Oscar Aguad, who confirmed the reports, according to the Buenos Aires daily Clarin.

• Tuesday, November 6th 2018 - 07:26 UTC

  New hypothesis on the tragedy that befell Argentina's sub ARA San Juan

  

  An “operation error” related to a ventilation valve, called 'Eco-19,' could explain the mystery of the tragedy that befell the ARA San Juan, the Argentine submarine that disappeared almost a year ago with 44-crew members on board. The new details emerged in a report currently being prepared by a commission of experts based inside the Argentine Defense Ministry.

• Tuesday, April 10th 2018 - 07:27 UTC

  HMS Protector expected in Buenos Aires

  

  The United Kingdom Ice Patrol HMS Protector is expected this week in Buenos Aires on her return trip from the Antarctica season. The visit is seen as evidence of the renewed and improved UK/Argentina bilateral relations, both politically and in defense issues.

• Friday, December 29th 2017 - 06:55 UTC

  US withdraws support for the search of the ARA San Juan submarine

  

  The United States Southern Command announced the U.S. was withdrawing support for the mission to find the Argentine submarine that went missing last month with 44 aboard in the South Atlantic.

• Friday, December 8th 2017 - 08:20 UTC

  Falklands/Buenos Aires Ezeiza airport direct flight by a RAF Voyager transport

  

  A RAF Voyager transport, in a direct link from MPA in the Falkland Islands landed on Thursday morning at Ezeiza airport in Buenos Aires with 25 members of the HMS Protector crew, on time to catch a midday British Airways flight to London. It has been decades since an RAF unit lands in the Argentine capital international airport.