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🗓️ 2 May 2022
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The Argentine ship, General Belgrano, was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands War on 2nd of May 1982. 323 people died in the attack. Dario Volonte, now an opera singer, was one of the survivors and in 2014 he spoke to Louise Hidalgo about the attack.
Photo: The General Belgrano. (Credit: Getty Images)
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0:39.7 | with me Louis Adalgo. Today we're going back exactly 40 years to the sinking of the Argentine ship |
0:46.9 | the General Belgrano during the Falklands War. Darrio Volante was just 18 when the Belgrano was torpedoed by a British submarine deep in the South Atlantic on the 2nd of May 1982. |
1:00.0 | In 2014 he told me how the attack happened just as he came on duty. |
1:06.0 | Howl the D stations? Howleston action stations... |
1:14.0 | At first we thought we'd have an attack that was part of... |
1:17.0 | At first we thought we'd been attacked from the air. |
1:19.0 | It was the way the ship moved, up and down, up and down, as if the attack had come from above. |
1:24.8 | And the floor felt like it was giving way underneath me. |
1:28.0 | And then all the lights went out and we were in darkness. |
1:31.6 | Daria was in the boiler room of the General Belgrano when the torpedo struck. |
1:36.0 | The attack hadn't in fact come from the air. |
1:38.0 | It had come from the British nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Conqueror. |
1:49.0 | The conqueror had been shadowing the Belgrano for more than a day. On the 2nd of May they got the order, attack. |
1:52.0 | The first torpedo hit the bow, the second punched a |
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