There Is A Submarine Missing. SOS!

Argentina's Navy lost contact with one of its diesel subs with 44 hands. I don't believe in this statement since this is not how communications protocols work: 

The navy began an air and sea search on Thursday. On Friday afternoon, Argentina’s foreign ministry said that the U.S., British and Chilean governments had offered logistical support and exchanges of information to assist with the search.

A Chilean aircraft with the ability to search during the night was en route to assist, Chile’s Foreign Minister Heraldo Munoz said.

Balbi said the submarine, which left the southern city of Ushuaia for Mar del Plata, both in Argentina, had food supply for several days and would likely continue its journey despite communication problems.

Let's just pray--and I do, despite being an atheist--that they will be found and saved. It is Friday and the news are not that good. Yet, it is still Friday and Soviet/Russian progressive/art rock stalwarts Avtograph once, in 1985 wrote a magnificent piece of music called S-O-S. I remember this music non-stop in my feverish mind when Kursk was dying.

UPDATE for 11/20/17: 

The news are not good:(( 

Satellite calls did not come from missing Argentine submarine: navy spokesman

The search is complicated by storm. 

UPDATE for 11/21/17: 

It seems that the storm calmed down somewhat. As some Russian submariners say, if to be very thrifty they may have enough oxygen for up to 10 days. 

“Today is a critical day,” said Maria Victoria Morales, the mother of Luis Garcia, an electrical technician aboard the vessel. “We are holding up as well as we can.”

Morales and other relatives of crew members have been gathered at a naval base in Mar del Plata, where authorities are coordinating the search and rescue operation.

My heart goes out to those people... These are forces, other than Argentinian, which are currently involved in search--good luck to them. My sincere admiration and wish of success to American, German, French, British, Chilean, Brazilian and other forces responding immediately to this situation. 

UPDATE for 11/22/17:    

Can this Thanksgiving give us some hope, a glimmer of it.  We all know, oxygen is running out. 

In Mar del Plata, locals hung sky blue and white Argentine flags, with inscribed messages like “ARA San Juan, the world is with you” on the chain link fence outside the naval base.“We are desperate,” resident Leandro Gamarra said outside the base. “We want them to appear.”

And so do we all. 


 
UPDATE for 11/24/17: 

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RIP