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Navy searches for the ARA San Juan
Friday, December 1, 2017 –
6:33am
The Argentine navy has announced it will scale back the rescue
mission for its submarine, the ARA San Juan, which has been missing
since 15 November with 44 crew on board.
“Despite the magnitude of the effort made it has not been
possible to locate the submarine,” navy captain Enrique Balbi said.
“No one will be rescued.”
Balbi said that after extending the mission to “more than double
the number of days than it would have been possible to rescue the
crew”, the search for the submarine would be scaled back to the
area where the submarine was thought to have vanished, in waters of
up to 500 metres deep.
Rescuers seek missing submarine with 44 sailors on
board ‘Explosion’ heard near missing submarine
“Relatives of the crew are bitter at the amount of misleading
misinformation they received from the government in an apparent
attempt to keep their hopes alive in the first few days after the
submarine disappeared,” The Guardian says.
Several families have told local media that they are planning
legal action against the Argentinian government, and one family
member has already travelled to speak to the judge in charge of
investigating the incident.
The submarine is thought to have broken up shortly after
reporting a “short circuit” in the vessel’s batteries. “Water had
entered the submarine’s snorkel, which can be used to take in air
from above the surface when the submarine is submerged,” the
BBC says.
The ARA San Juan was ordered back to port, before the
Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organisation
detected a “hydro-acoustic anomaly”, which the navy says could be
the noise of the submarine imploding.
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