‘Hydro-acoustic anomaly’ raises possibility that missing Argentine submarine exploded
A “hydro-acoustic anomaly” was detected near where the Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan went missing, three hours after it sent its last communications a week ago, the navy revealed on Wednesday. The anomaly occurred at 30 nautical miles north of the last position from where the submarine had communicated with the navy, spokesman Enrique Balbi said.
A US institute detected the anomaly, but only informed Argentina about it now. Balbi had earlier said it was unlikely the submarine exploded, because an explosion of that magnitude in the sea would not have gone undetected......
The spokesman said three navy vessels were on their way to the area to check whether the submarine was there. “It’s a noise. We don’t want to speculate” about what caused it, Balbi said of the anomaly......