The ship responds: The 67,000 images of the submarine ARA San Juan arrived at the port of Cape Town – 29/11/2018

At half-past five in the morning, the ship flying the Norwegian flag Seabed Constructor, the ship that found the submarine ARA San Juan, is moored in the port of Cape Town. It was without major inconvenience and after a long journey of more than 80 days crossed by anxiety, waiting, uncertainty and emotion of discovery. A team of Clarin he was the only witness of the arrival and accompanied at a prudential distance the landing process of the crew.

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The Argentinian observers who participated in the Odyssey, parents of the crew of the sunken submarine, were received by Captain Gonzalo Prieto, new defense attaché in South Africa, and by the Argentine consul Pablo Graziano. The diplomatic representative and the representative of the Navy were present to provide logistical support to the Argentineans on board. But they also arrived with the mission to collaborate and accompany the process of downloading the 67,000 images and videos of the submarine ARA San Juan collected by ocean Infinity immersion vehicles at 907 meters deep.

It is this material that will probably know what happened to the Argentinean ship to sink 500 km from the coast of Comodoro Rivadavia on November 15, 2017. The copy of the information on the external hard drives started immediately after their arrival, almost in parallel immigration procedures. A day before the arrival, Oliver Plunkett, CEO of Ocean Infinity, said in an exclusive interview with Clarín: "I hope that all this information will allow the Argentine authorities to draw conclusions about the tragedy".

"We arrived with a very nice day, after a long trip, we could see a very beautiful landscape.At seven o'clock in the morning, we made contact with Captain Prieto and the consul, who boarded the ship authorized by Captain, it was an emotional meeting, and we had a long conversation and we know that this story and the investigation must now continue, "he said enthusiastically. Clarin the lawyer Luis Tagliapietra, father of the crew of the Argentine submarine Alejandro Tagliapietra.

In the port of Cape Town, it was a dawn of extreme tranquility. While the crew of the ocean floor was carrying out the tasks of the port, a team of experts was in charge of the transfer of information. "It is a task that deserves total dedication, very important for the country and especially for families, we must be respectful of this process so that these data reach Argentina as quickly as possible, c & # 39; That's why we are here, "he explained. Clarin Captain Prieto. Around eleven o'clock in the morning, local time (five hours less in Argentina), the travelers were given permission to start getting off the ship.

On the documentation, the Navy said that Caleta Olivia's Federal Court No. 1 had issued a ballot that establishes the obligation to do justice to all information pertaining to the submarine's search process. Even the data relating to the location of the location service and the reliable identification of the submarine.

It is also known that during the stay on board, all the Argentine observers had the same level of access to the images but respected a prefixed communication protocol, in order to preserve the confidentiality of the information. This responds to a request from total reservation families, beyond the three previously published images, which constituted positive identification evidence. The Argentine delegation will remain in Cape Town until 3 December. That day, they will leave Doha (Qatar) for Buenos Aires and arrive on Tuesday 4.