The Intense Search For The Missing Submarine

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Six days after the disappearance of the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan, the authorities of that country reported that they will intensify their location and rescue operations for that ship and its 44 crew, using the best technology available and with one of the most powerful fleets. of the world.

As reported by El Clarín, for this unprecedented operation, he moved from the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii - and in one of the largest military aircraft in the world (the C-5) - a ship that contains four unmanned submersible vehicles. These are controlled by remote control and a powerful probe that will serve to try to locate the submarine.

If the rescue ship locates it, it will mobilize a pressurized camera next to it that will stick to it and allow its crew to be rescued in groups of six.

This is the latest team to join a relief operation that already included 10 planes, 13 ships and the international collaboration of Brazil, the United States, Chile, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Colombia, and Peru.

The ARA San Juan disappeared on Wednesday and, according to information from the Argentine Navy, in its last communication, indicated that it had had a short circuit in the battery, so it had to change routes and navigate to Mar del Plata, where would have arrived yesterday on a normal trip.

The sailors' relatives received an infusion of hope over the weekend when CNN reported that sounds had been detected as well as seven satellite calls in the area where the ship is believed to be. However, all hope collapsed, after Enrique Balbi, spokesman for the Navy, ruled out that the detected sounds came from that ship, as well as satellite calls.

Experts have said that if the ship is submerged, its occupants would only have oxygen for ten days, which is why the rescue operation has tripled in the last few hours.