Argentine submarine goes missing with 44 crew members on board: navy

Reuters ^ | 11/17/17 | Reuters Staff

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine military submarine with 44 crew members on board was missing at sea on Friday, prompting a massive search to locate the vessel which may have suffered a communication error, a navy spokesman said. The vessel was in the southern Argentine Sea when it gave its last location two days ago.

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Not good.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for them.

[robroys woman]

Probably making a beeline for Florida.

[Monterrosa-24]

I’m old enough to remember when the USS Thresher disappeared with 129 aboard back when JFK was prez.

I pray that this Argentine crew is safe and only has comms troubles.

[NEMDF]

Kidnapped by NK?

[tet68]

Praying it’s just a communication error.
Eternal Father...

[dfwgator]

Sneak attack on The Falklands?

[Snickering Hound]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_San_Juan_(S-42)

It’s the San Juan.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

There were three submarines lost in the same two week period back in the 60s.

[gop4lyf]

The search for it was disguised as a search for the Titanic. They (Robert Ballard’s team) ended up finding both.

[DoodleDawg]

There were three submarines lost in the same two week period back in the 60s.

Not quite two weeks. The French and Israelis each lost one in January 1968, the Soviets lost one in March, and the U.S. lost the Scorpion in June. Bad year for subs all around.

[BenLurkin]

[mewzilla]

http://www.janes.com/article/75782/argentina-loses-contact-with-one-of-its-submarines

[forgotten man]

IIRC there was a Russian submarine stuck underwater. The U.S. Navy could have saved them but the Russians were too proud to ask for our help and the crewman all died.

[null and void]

Prayers up.

[null and void]

Me too. Didn’t like it when it was then, and US, don’t like it now, and Argentinian.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

And the Scorpion some months later.

[CrazyIvan]

“I’m old enough to remember when the USS Thresher disappeared with 129 aboard back when JFK was prez.”

I recently attended the reunion for Sargo SSN 583. We visited the Naval Museum which has a section dedicated to deep water recovery and has artifacts brought up from Thresher and Scorpion. Several of the men there had been involved with these efforts. Almost all of the older crewmembers had known someone on Thresher. One had transferred off the boat just before she left. A very sobering experience.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

The first boat on which I served eventually was given to Argentina. I wonder if that is my old boat.

[Flag_This]

"The French and Israelis each lost one in January 1968, the Soviets lost one in March, and the U.S. lost the Scorpion in June. Bad year for subs all around."

I read a book several years ago that claimed the Scorpion was destroyed by a Soviet sub in retaliation for the loss of their sub earlier that year. It claimed that the U.S. Navy's underwater microphone network (SOSUS) recorded the sounds of the Scorpion dying and the sounds that immediately preceded the first explosion were those of a torpedo. The author also claimed that those audio recordings were later used in training Navy sonar operators.