Tag: Seabed Contructor

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  “Seabed Constructor” which discovered the ARA San Juan has located a French sub lost near Toulon in 1968

  

  A French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968 has been located during a search mission, officials said on Monday, ending a 51-year wait for families of the deceased who continue to seek answers to the naval disaster.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 08:12 UTC

  Searching for Admiral Graf von Spee’s great cruiser fleet sunk at the Falklands Battle

  

  In 2014-2015, to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Falklands, Mensun Bound, a Falkland Islander himself, led an expedition to try to find Admiral Graff von Spee’s lost cruiser squadron in 1914, the whereabouts of which has become one the great mysteries of the maritime world. Now he is resuming the hunt. Mercopress began by asking how it all began.

• Saturday, November 17th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  It's official: ARA San Juan has been found 800 meters deep; next challenge: can she be lifted?

  

  The Argentine Navy confirmed early Saturday morning that the missing ARA San Juan submarine which disappeared in the South Atlantic on 15 November a year ago, with a crew of 44, has been found. The discovery was also announced by the Argentine Defense ministry and the United States company, Ocean Infinity, leading the search for the vessel, and it happens exactly one year and one day after all contact was lost with the vessel sailing from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to its base in Mar del Plata.

• Friday, November 16th 2018 - 19:14 UTC

  Metal object detected could be ARA San Juan - Seabed Constructor rushes to the area

  

  The US company Ocean Infinity has reported new evidence was found in the search for the missing Argentine Navy's ARA San Juan submarine and that their leading ship, the Seabed Constructor, was due in the area Friday before midnight

• 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.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 17:23 UTC

  Mar del Plata route becomes new lead in search for ARA San Juan

  

  Efforts to retrieve the missing Argentine Navy submarine ARA San Juan changed course Sunday and now everything is “Area 6” for the operation, as the ship Seabed Constructor deployed its robots throughout it, the last one to be added to the search.