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croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

le chat wrote:Got the argentinians first ever female submariner officer on it...

True Blue wrote:

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

Someone needs to email Microsoft. Their AI Bot is on the fritz again.

CrazyIslander wrote:Hope Puma is ok.

The hope that arose from seven failed satellite calls detected on Saturday morning, which Argentina’s defence ministry at first said could be from the missing submarine, is also dimming fast. The government on Sunday said it could not confirm that the attempts had come from the ARA San Juan.

“Regrettably, we have not yet had any contact with the submarine,” the Argentinian navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said on Sunday morning. The satellite call attempts were registered between 9am and 3pm on Saturday, lasting between four and 36 seconds, but there was no voice contact. “There were seven attempts with a very weak signal that failed to connect,” the officer said. “We are trying to squeeze that information to obtain some concrete data and a geolocation.”
Argentina’s defence ministry said it was working on tracing the location of the calls with an unnamed US company that specialised in satellite communications.

The families of the ARA San Juan’s crew are deeply distressed, and urged the government to clarify the situation. “We want the government to confirm if the calls were from the submarine,” said Claudio Rodríguez, brother of the crew member Hernán Rodríguez, who was travelling on Sunday from his home in the western province of Mendoza to the submarine’s home port in Mar del Plata to join other relatives gathering there in desperate search of news.

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

camroc1 wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

They're designed that way.

Therefore not amazing, but deliberate.

croyals wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

They're designed that way.

Therefore not amazing, but deliberate.

Bizarre comment given the circumstances.

And you're going to try and tell me that naval officials don't generally have a reasonable idea where their subs are, particularly in this case where we are looking at a regional navy in peacetime.

Anonymous. wrote:

croyals wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

They're designed that way.

Therefore not amazing, but deliberate.

Bizarre comment given the circumstances.

And you're going to try and tell me that naval officials don't generally have a reasonable idea where their subs are, particularly in this case where we are looking at a regional navy in peacetime.

The oceans are mahussive and as the man said they are designed to be very very difficult to detect.

Yer Man wrote:

Anonymous. wrote:

croyals wrote:

camroc1 wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

They're designed that way.

Therefore not amazing, but deliberate.

Bizarre comment given the circumstances.

And you're going to try and tell me that naval officials don't generally have a reasonable idea where their subs are, particularly in this case where we are looking at a regional navy in peacetime.

The oceans are mahussive and as the man said they are designed to be very very difficult to detect.

They probably have a "reasonable idea" that the sub is in the South Atlantic but...

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

Enzedder wrote:Yes guys, Puma is fine. He does have some friends on the sub though so I have my fingers crossed for he and them.

Hong Kong wrote:Let’s not do the whole globby gig on this thread.

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

backrow wrote:

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

aren't Royal Navy subs a bit secret to be let on if you are non military ?
or were you fixing the periscope mechanism you no doubt designed ?

backrow wrote:

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

aren't Royal Navy subs a bit secret to be let on if you are non military ?
or were you fixing the periscope mechanism you no doubt designed ?

backrow wrote:

globus wrote:

croyals wrote:Seems amazing they can't locate a sub when they know where it left and where it's heading - can only suspect the worst.

Last word is it might be a comms thing. I've been down in a sub once and a late colleague of mine used to trundle around in them for the RN.

He was certifiable though. He decided to do that bit when you lay on a pile of nails after you have run through the burning ashes.

Nuff said. I did baulk at the choice of "We Are Sailing" at his funeral. I didn't do that one.

His widow was always not quite the woman I thought he would marry. I'm god dad to his son.

aren't Royal Navy subs a bit secret to be let on if you are non military ?
or were you fixing the periscope mechanism you no doubt designed ?

David990 wrote:Royal Navy ship HMS Protector is in the search area and an RAF C-130 based out of RAF Mount Pleasant is conducting surface patrols of the search area

globus wrote: Last word is it might be a comms thing.

Anonymous. wrote:

globus wrote: Last word is it might be a comms thing.

Lets hope so. Although this layman with no interests in things naval can't really see how that could be the problem.

globus wrote:

Anonymous. wrote:

globus wrote: Last word is it might be a comms thing.

Lets hope so. Although this layman with no interests in things naval can't really see how that could be the problem.

Fingers crossed from me too. I don't have much knowledge of underwater comms. I suppose the closest was to have forward facing SONAR. I did get to hear the pings from the ASDIC but expect they have much more sophisticated kit nowadays.

Didn't help in finding the MH370 and that's over 3 years ago and no sign.

Must be like looking for a needle in a haystack in another haystack in yet another haystack etc.

I am interested in most things maritime.

sewa wrote:

globus wrote:

Anonymous. wrote:

globus wrote: Last word is it might be a comms thing.

Lets hope so. Although this layman with no interests in things naval can't really see how that could be the problem.

Fingers crossed from me too. I don't have much knowledge of underwater comms. I suppose the closest was to have forward facing SONAR. I did get to hear the pings from the ASDIC but expect they have much more sophisticated kit nowadays.

Didn't help in finding the MH370 and that's over 3 years ago and no sign.

Must be like looking for a needle in a haystack in another haystack in yet another haystack etc.

I am interested in most things maritime.

I assume the point is if the comms are all that are acting up you can just go up and surface and wait for help so its clearly not just a comms issue

backrow wrote:Maybe it did a US navy and crashed into the belgrano ?