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San Juan submarine: 'Explosion' detected in hunt for Argentine vessel
The Argentine navy says an event consistent with an explosion was recorded near where a submarine disappeared last week with 44 crew on board. An "abnormal, singular, short, violent, non-nuclear event" had been detected in the south Atlantic, a spokesman said. The information came from an Austria-based anti-nuclear test watchdog, Capt Balbi said. It follows a report of a loud noise in the same area.
The ARA San Juan disappeared last Wednesday. More than a dozen countries including Russia and the US have sent assistance.
The new information was provided to the Argentine navy on Thursday by the Vienna-based Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Capt Balbi said. In a statement, the CTBTO said two of its hydro-acoustic stations had detected a signal from an "underwater impulsive event".
Also at NYT, CNN, and The Guardian.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by crafoo on Friday November 24 2017, @05:43PM
Yeah. Pretty much the same everywhere unfortunately. Marketing sells a grand vision. Procurement bids out necessary equipment to the lowest suppliers. MBA bean counters "cut costs", and with the help of dipshit program managers, underfund and accelerate schedule. Rules Lawyers and bureaucrats create 1000 page procedures and checklists. Then hire entire departments to manage the procedures and checklists. Now you have a half-funded, under-staffed, micro-managed, accelerated, poorly equipped situation. So what does management do? Hire 5 people with clipboards to follow useful people around and ask if they are done yet.
With large organizations there has to be some sort of mass event that triggers a firestorm. You have to burn out all the management and oversight departments. Sometimes this kills the organization.