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An abnormal sound detected in the South Atlantic ocean around the time that an Argentine navy submarine sent its last signal last week was “consistent with an explosion,” a navy spokesman said on Thursday.
Spokesman
Enrique Balbi described the blast in the morning of November 15th as “abnormal, singular, short, violent” and “non-nuclear”.
The navy did not have enough information to say what the cause of the explosion could have been or whether the ARA
San Juan could have been attacked, Mr Balbi told reporters.
The information about the explosion received on Thursday morning was consistent with a separate report received on Wednesday of an “acoustic anomaly” in the same area and around the same time the vessel gave its last signal, Balbi said.
“This is very important because it allows us to correlate and confirm the acoustic anomaly from the US report yesterday,” he said.
“Here, we’re talking about a singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event, consistent with an explosion.”
The site of the abnormal sound was close to where the German-built vessel gave its last location, about 430km off the coast.