Argentine Warship sinks at peir

The Argentine Naval Missile Destroyer "Santisima Trinidad" can be viewed in the process of sinking on GE imagery of Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. On imagery of Nov 20th, 2012 vessel is moored pier side at 38*53'42.20"S/62*06"15.35"W. Next image of Mar 10, 2013 the ship has rolled onto it's port side and is surrounded by oil barrier booms. The "Santisima Trinidad" was use to land the first Argentine forces in the Falklands leading to War with Britain in 1982, and was being readied as a monument/museum to the war. I have been unable to locate information regarding the results of the Argentine Navy's investigation to determine if the sinking was accidental, or a result of sabotage.

 

Your find is interesting, but the format you gave the coordinates in is not searchable. The coordinates below were copied from the placemark I made, minus the degree symbol (°). They are searchable, but a placemark is by far the most convenient way to share a location with the members of this forum.


-38.895303 -62.104124

Other lat/long formats will work in the search box. If for some reason you don't want to create a placemark (see googleearthcommunity.proboards.com/post/3703/thread for some help in doing so) please verify that the lat/long format you are providing works before you post.

Looking forward to more of your interesting contributions.

Attachments:

Santisima Trinidad.kmz (1004 B)

Washi;


Thanks for the information. I'm not being argumentative, but was just curious why the geographic coordinate format I used would not be searchable in GE. It's the same format displayed in the GE image data line except for the degree symbol which my keyboard doesn't provide (please educate me on how you produced it in your reply). Also, most organizations that produce and/or deal with geographic reference products, e.g. the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from whence I retired after 32 years as an Imagery Analyst, use the standard lat/long format which is searchable in databases. Appreciate your assistance...new to the forum, and just trying to get educated. 

Sept 27, 2015 17:15:39 GMT OldNPIC'er said:

...the degree symbol which my keyboard doesn't provide (please educate me on how you produced it in your reply). 

I'm not sure how washi did it (there's more than one way to skin a cat) but I do it with "alt 0176". Just hold down the alt key and type 0176, let go, and voila! Here's a web page with all the alt codes:
Alt codes list

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The point of the example I gave is that you don't need the degree symbol in the coordinates to use them in a search. As it happens, the degree symbol that I used in the post was one that I copied from the coordinates that I copied from the Properties dialog box of my placemark. ( How lat/long is expressed in your Properties boxes will depend on your Options settings.)  

I almost always compose posts in my word processing program, and frequently use the import symbols function to write the macron in Ō, ō, and ū, because if I wrote Japanese in roman letters the way the Japanese do, most English speakers would grossly mispronounce the result. The ° symbol is just one of the many available there.

I didn't know your little trick, Gregg. Pretty slick!

Thanks, Washi and Gregg. Good info from both of you. And I thought I was too old to learn new tricks!

Concerning sunken ships:

If you want to see the current position of the Costa Concordia in the port of Genoa, see here
Costa Concordia.kmz (691 B)

disaster took place here
costa concordia crash.kmz (690 B)