Originally Posted by
Trim Stab
La Nación is reporting now that of the 44 on board, 6 are "Buzeos tacticos" who are the Argentine equivalent of SBS and who are all highly trained divers, and would be trained in underwater egress from a submarine. I would have thought there would be an escape attempt by them by now, if oxygen levels were critically low, and if the boat really is in 230ft. So maybe oxygen is not yet critical, or else the scenario is bad.
Even if their special forces were on board they would not have the gases either mixtures or quantity to ascend from that depth (75m) on board allowing for decompression stops required to eliminate Nitrogen from the bloodstream. Read an autobiography from and ex SBS man, they used Oxygen for very shallow operations otherwise air for normal operations. If they had to approach a target unless a beach/installation recce they would surface and go in with canoes.
Even if the divers escaped, unless there was someone on the surface, what would they do then?
Unless this boat is found soon then I suspect that the outcome will be tragedy for all concerned.