ARGENTINE SUB INVOLVED IN "UNSCHEDULED UNDERSEA TERRITORIAL ACQUISITION"

In the latest heroic achievement of the Argentinian armed forces, a navy submarine has successfully laid claim to a portion of the South Atlantic seabed.

The submarine, the San Juan, with its crew of 44, marked its possession of the new underwater domain by spontaneously exploding and scattering the area with its debris. 

The submarine seized the territory, which had formerly belonged to King Neptune, after sailing from the Ushuaia naval base in the extreme South of Argentina and then skirting the Falkland Islands, a territory which Argentina administered for a brief period in the 1980s. 

It was during this period that the Argentinian government first experimented with "underwater colonisation" on a large scale.

The new sub-aquatic province is located around 200 miles from the coast of Argentina and 200 miles North of the Falkland Islands, which is now home to a small British garrison. 

The watery province measures several hundred square meters and is mainly inhabited by fish and few deep sea crabs, who are reportedly doing extremely well out of the new political arrangement. 

Meanwhile, back on the Argentine mainland the government has come under criticism for its expansionary policy, with the relatives of the submariners involved in the "unscheduled undersea territorial acquisition" accusing the government of sacrificing the welfare of the crew in an attempt to project political and military power well beyond the humble limits and military capability of the frequently debt-riden Latin American nation.