Posted on 11/22/2017 6:57:42 AM PST by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Missing Argentine submarine 'is located by US Navy and a new sonar signal heard' as rescuers race to the spot with oxygen due to run out imminently
The missing Argentine submarine may have been located early this morning, after a US Navy aircraft allegedly detected a 'heat stain' from 230ft below the surface, some 185miles from the coast, and a rescue vessel separately reported hearing a sonar signal.
The ARA San Juan was sailing from Ushuaia to Mar del Plata when it disappeared with 44 crew members last Wednesday, including Argentina's first female submariner Eliana Krawczyk, 35, and Luis Niz, 25, who is due to get married in two weeks time.
The crew's oxygen supply was due to run out this morning as they only had enough on board to last seven days - leaving the international rescue mission racing against time to the spot where the signals were detected.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The continental shelf goes all the waY out to the Falkland Islands. So the depth increases very slowly as you move away from the coastline. We have a similar situation off the US eastcoast. It’s so shallow that German U-boats couldn’t ‘get under’ some of our depth charge attacks.
Google U-352. I dove that wreck. Only 110 fsw.
Cool water map.
I’ve got to put them in God’s hands. So much can go wrong.
Don’t be so quick to give up. The men and woman on that boat are submariners. The best, most ingenious, and downright sneakiest sailors in that or any other Navy. The rule books say 7 days normal operating routine. But, they’ve been in their bunks, conserving O2 in every way. Much like the astronauts in Apollo XIII their biggest worry is CO2. There are ways to deal with that. Submariners don’t know how to give up!
The “signals” turned out not to exist. They’re dead.
Prayers up...
Saw a doc on the USS Thresher. One of the theories was that the Thresher had rigid screens over the emergency tank nozzles, and given expanding air sucking the heat out of a moist environment, the screens iced up, blocking, then clogging the nozzles.
From my scuba days, I remember regulator companies hyping transferring heat from exhaled breath to the regulator internals. (Granted, regulators claimed to be designed to fail "open" anyway.)
As long as we dont ram the sub during the rescue.
Among the last things the sub crew reported was a fire — it isn’t unlikely that the fire asphyxiated everyone on board shortly thereafter, regardless of what other problems had arisen, and aboard submarines, one problem generally proliferates into multiple problems.
alas:
...‘heat signal’ turns out to be a FALSE ALARM
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4970759/argentine-submarine-missing-signal-false-alarm-oxygen-crew/
I would think they would be able to do something like that - maybe personal air supplies (tank/mask). Taking crew members out will reduce the load on what oxygen supply is left, too.
I hope they’ve truly found the sub and if so, can get to the crew in time.
Daggone it .... I was worried they really didn’t have it located.
Thanks for the update.
Well, not EVERYONE - they always seemed to have a soft spot for Nazis....
Amen
My first reaction to the “heat signature” story was “Wait! Our detection equipment is THAT sensitive?”
If they have a acoustic fix, they’ll walk-back that thermal detection story just to keep the details secret.
Good point!
Well, crap.
AND, they’ll probably blame Trump for it, too.
Very likely. The good news is, he's got over seven years left in office, by the look of things, and they'll all be hooked on prescription downers by then. :^)
Most of the crew got off on the surface, before it sank. I think only one of the officers in the escape pod managed to escape before it too, sank.
Shades of the Chilean miner story. Let’s hope this has an equally happy ending.
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