Generator in the Argentine Sea fails and the campaign in the San Matías Gulf is delayed

A failure in one of the three generators of the ship “Mar Argentino” delays the start of the shrimp survey campaign in the waters of the San Matías Gulf that INIDEP planned to carry out at the request of the Province of Río Negro. The study was originally scheduled to begin last Monday. That day the vessel had a fishing equipment test where, beyond the success of its results, in the engine room they noticed that once again generator 1 was working at a high temperature when coupled to the other two to deliver greater power to the main engine. “With one generator the propulsion motor operates at 40%, with two generators at 80% and with three at 100%. “This failure does not allow the ship to operate at its full capacity,” said an expert on the subject. The generator failure is not new. It had already been observed prior to the beginning of the shrimp evaluation campaign in the San Jorge Gulf, the trip that had to be canceled due to adverse weather conditions. Then the vessel ...