Traded by the sea

Lieutenant Eliana Maria Kravchik, the first female submariner in the history of Argentina and all of Latin America, served on San Huang submarine, which disappeared in the depths of the Atlantic

Photo: Facebook / Eliana Kawczyk

In Argentina, she was called the "queen of the seas." She was 35 years old, at the San Juan underwater diesel-electrode she served since 2016 by captenarmus-was responsible for the state of weapons. This is the third person in rank - after the commander and the old man.

But she once dreamed of becoming the captain of the submarine. According to the publication Primera Edición , Eliana Maria urged all women without fear of walking through life, because each "can do the same thing that a man in a sphere, traditionally considered male."

Relatives received the last news from her when the boat was preparing to sail from Uushuay, the southern city of the planet, on the fiery land-in the mar-del pay, the port of the postscript. She said that in Ushuaye, the governor climbed to the board of the boat to greet her personally as the only woman as part of the crew. And she added that there are problems on the boat - technical.

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The Argentine of Polish origin, Eliana Maria Kravchik was born in the city of Obra, the province of Msiones-this is the northeast of Argentina, on the border with Paraguay and Brazil, a thousand kilometers from the ocean, which she saw only at 21. She studied at a technologist, when the tragedy changed everything in her life. In just one year, she lost two closest people: at the beginning, her brother died in a car accident, then mother died from a heart attack.

“Once on the Internet, I saw an announcement: our fleet was recruiting applicants at the Navy school,” said Eliana Maria with the Argentinean newspaper Clarín recently . “I went to Posadas ( the administrative center of the province of Msiones. - NT) and signed up.”

Eliana Maria put a photograph of her mother in her purse, which she would always carry with her, and forever left her hometown. Then she entered the Ensenade Naval School, near Buenos Aires, which she graduated with honors three years later, in 2009, receiving the title of lieutenant.

Her father Eduardo Kravchik told Argentine journalists that the last time he spoke with his daughter about two weeks before the last campaign of San Juan: “She told me that she was happy ... let's pray together so that everything would be resolved safely.”

The unsuccessful search for the disappeared boat has been going on for two weeks, 14 countries participate in them, including Russia.

On November 23, participants in the rescue operation recorded a powerful explosion somewhere in the abyss of the ocean.

On November 27, it became known about the content of the last radiogram with San Juan of November 15: a short circuit in the battery compartment due to the sea water that penetrated there, a fire began, but it seemed to be able to cope with it, the crew promised to get in touch again. But he never came out ...

On November 29, Eliana Maria Kravchik had to take place.

Argentina is proud of her and hopes for something else ...

Photo: hd.crlarin.com, facebook / eliana kawczyk