U.S. Navy Undersea Rescue Team Rethinking How it Deploys After Argentine Sub Loss

ARA San Juan (S-42)

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Executing a submarine rescue is a race against time to reach a trapped crew before a dwindling oxygen supply runs out, and when the most recent request came for help, the U.S. Navy found mobilizing personnel and equipment took too long.

On Nov. 15, 2017, the Argentine Navy lost contact with its submarine ARA San Juan (S-42). Two days later, the Argentinians asked the U.S. Navy for help, and the San Diego-based Submarine Escape and Rescue team quickly...

https://news.usni.org/2019/05/07/u-s-navy-undersea-rescue-team-rethinking-how-it-deploys-after-argentine-sub-loss

Top Stories 2018: International Naval Developments

HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived back in Portsmouth following successful First of Class rotary wing trials in the Atlantic. Royal Navy Photo.

USNI News polled its writers, naval analysts and service members on what they consider the most important military and maritime stories in 2018. This story is part of a series; please also see U.S. Coast GuardU.S. Navy Operations and U.S. Marine Operations.

Freedom of navigation operations, increased submarine activity, aggressive flight operations and...

https://news.usni.org/2018/12/27/39932

U.S. Underwater Mapping Firm Finds Wreckage of Missing Argentine Sub

Sonar images released by the Argentine Armada of the missing ARA San Juan attack submarine.

After a year-long search, the wreckage of the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) was found late Friday night by Texas-based underwater mapping firm Ocean Infinity.

San Juan’s last communication occurred on November 15, 2017. The sub was found resting in a ravine about 3,000 feet below the surface, about 323 nautical miles east of Comodoro Rivadavia in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a statemen...

https://news.usni.org/2018/11/17/u-s-underwater-mapping-firm-finds-wreckage-missing-argentine-sub

One Year Later, Search For Missing Argentine Submarine Continues

ARA San Juan (S-42)

A year has passed since the last communication was received from Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan (S-42), but the search for the missing boat continues with the help of a Texas-based undersea mapping firm.

Starting in early October, Houston-based Ocean Infinity deployed its research vessel Seabed Constructor and an array of five autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to comb the South Atlantic off the Argentine coast.

The firm had several clues to start with, such as San Juan’s...

https://news.usni.org/2018/11/15/after-a-year-search-for-missing-argentine-submarine-continues