Possible explosion detected near Argentine sub's last-known location

[Disir]

A sound detected underwater by an international agency on the morning of Nov. 15, around the time the ARA San Juan sent its last signal and in the same area, was “consistent with an explosion,” navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters.

The sub had only a seven-day supply of oxygen, a fact that drained hope from some of the relatives of the crew who have gathered at the vessel’s base in the city of Mar del Plata.


“What’s the point of hope if it’s already over?” Itati Leguizamon, wife of one of the missing crew members, told reporters.
Possible explosion detected near Argentine sub's last-known location

I don't see any good ending here.

 

[depotoo]

Yeah, I heard the families are really angry, on how botched the search has been. Really a sad one.

 

[MikeK]

Sad for them. That is a terrible way to die.

 

[yiostheoy]

A sound detected underwater by an international agency on the morning of Nov. 15, around the time the ARA San Juan sent its last signal and in the same area, was “consistent with an explosion,” navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters.

The sub had only a seven-day supply of oxygen, a fact that drained hope from some of the relatives of the crew who have gathered at the vessel’s base in the city of Mar del Plata.


“What’s the point of hope if it’s already over?” Itati Leguizamon, wife of one of the missing crew members, told reporters.
Possible explosion detected near Argentine sub's last-known location

I don't see any good ending here.

It is called an "anomaly" in other words not naturally caused.

And it could be an EX-plosion or an IM-plosion.

 

[JGalt]

Bad deal for the crewmen and families.

"As part of a major fleet renovation plan which included the MEKO frigates classes, a contract was signed in 1977 with West Germany's Nordseewerke for six TR-1700-class submarines, the last four of them to be built in Argentina. The Argentine Navy sponsored the development of the CAREM nuclear reactor to be installed on these submarines,[11] but for political reasons the whole program was cancelled and only the two German units were delivered. These ships are the largest submarines built in Germany since World War II and are among the fastest diesel-electric submarines in the world.[12]

• ARA Santa Cruz (S-41)
• ARA San Juan (S-42) (Missing, presumed lost on Wednesday 15, November 2017)"

List of submarines of Submarine Force Command - Wikipedia

By Martin Otero - Naval Base Mar del Plata, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1807909