Skip to content
Casepin

Disappearance of ARA San Juan (2017)

SOLVEDSouth Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina0:40

The Argentine Navy submarine ARA San Juan vanished in the South Atlantic on 15 November 2017 with 44 crew aboard during a training exercise. After a large multinational search failed, the private company Ocean Infinity located the wreck a year and a day later at a depth of 907 metres; all 44 crew were lost.

Open the case file YouTube

Narrated from the published, cited case file. The sources are on the case page. How we make these videos.

Transcript

What the video says

An Argentine navy submarine sent one last message about a fire on board, then vanished into the South Atlantic with 44 crew aboard. Among them was Eliana Krawczyk, the country's first female submarine officer. A search across 13 nations found nothing, though monitoring posts had detected an explosion near its last known position. A year and a day later, a private company located the wreck 900 metres down, its hull imploded and scattered across the sea floor. All 44 were lost. The full case file is on casepin dot org.

Transcript from the video’s narration track. For every source, open the case file.

Up next

Watch next

All videos

Watch next