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The US Navy's research vessel Atlantis deploys the cable-controlled Undersea Recovery Vehicle off the coast of Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, as part of the search for the missing San Juan submarine AFP/HO BUENOS AIRES: A sonar search for the Argentine submarine that disappeared on Nov 15 with 44 crew members on board has made a new contact in the South Atlantic, according to the navy. It will be investigated by the remotely-operated Russian Panther Plus submarine, while the US oceanographic research vessel Atlantis continues exploring the search area, the navy announced Saturday.
The Argentine navy says it's not ready to give up a search for a vanished submarine, after the military revealed a sound consistent with an explosion was detected near the vessel's last known location last week off the country's South Atlantic coast. "Unfortunately, we still haven't been able to locate the San Juan submarine despite all of our efforts in the area of operations," Argentine navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters Saturday in Buenos Aires.
Argentina says it is accelerating the search for a submarine that has been lost in the South Atlantic for nine days amid growing fears for its 44 crew members. The Argentine navy says an explosion occurred near the time and place where the sub went missing on November 15. That has led some to give up hope.
The round-the-clock international search for a submarine that has been lost in the South Atlantic for nine days is accelerating amid growing fears for its 44 crew members. The Argentine navy says an explosion occurred near the time and place where the sub went missing on Nov. 15. That's led some family members of the crew to give up hope of a rescue.
An explosion recorded just hours after an Argentinian submarine went missing makes it look unlikely any of the 44 men and women on board have survived. The ARA San Juan hasn't been heard from since November 15, when it was travelling from the extreme southern port of Ushuaia to the coastal city of Mar del Plata.
MAR DEL PLATA , Argentina - An apparent explosion occurred near the time and place an Argentine submarine went missing, the country's navy reported Thursday an ominous development that prompted relatives of the 44 crew members to burst into tears, and some to say they had lost all hope of rescue. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said the search will continue until there is full certainty about the fate of the ARA San Juan.
Argentina's navy has announced that a sound detected during the search for a missing submarine is consistent with that of an explosion - an ominous development in the hunt for the vessel and its 44 crew members. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said that the relatives of the crew have been informed and that the search will continue until there is full certainty about the fate of the ARA San Juan.
A sound detected in the search for a missing submarine carrying 44 people is "consistent with an explosion", Argentine officials have said. The abnormal sound was detected in the South Atlantic ocean around the time the Argentine navy submarine sent its last communication last week.
Argentina's navy announced Thursday that a sound detected during the search for a missing submarine is consistent with that of an explosion - an ominous development in the hunt for the vessel and its 44 crew members. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said that the relatives of the crew have been informed and that the search will continue until there is full certainty about the fate of the ARA San Juan.
An RAF aircraft has landed in Argentina some 35 years after the Falklands War, as it joins search efforts to find a missing submarine with 44 sailors on board. The Argentine navy said it lost contact with the ARA San Juan on November 15 as the submarine sailed from the extreme southern port of Ushuaia to Mar del Plata.
Add United Kingdom as an interest to stay up to date on the latest United Kingdom news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Britain's Ministry of Defense has deployed another aircraft in the search for a missing Argentine submarine with 44 sailors on board.
In this Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017 photo released by the Argentine Navy on Nov. 22, members of the Argentine Air Force search for a missing submarine in the South Atlantic near Argentina's coast. Argentine families of 44 crew members aboard a submarine that has been lost in the South Atlantic for seven days are growing increasingly distressed as experts say the crew might be reaching a critical period of low oxygen on Wednesday.
The Argentine submarine ARA San Juan went missing in the South Atlantic last week with 44 crew members aboard. Here's a look at the submarine and the round-the-clock international maritime search.
A U.S. aircraft searching for a missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members spotted white flares, but they were unlikely to be from the sub lost for six days in the South Atlantic, the Argentine navy said Tuesday. The ARA San Juan carried red and green flares, but authorities would still try to identify the origin of the white signals, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters.
School teachers hang a sign with the colours of the Argentine flag that reads in Spanish "ARA San Juan, we wait for you" on a fence at the Navel base in Mar del Plata, Argentina Sounds detected by probes deep in the South Atlantic did not come from an Argentine submarine that has been lost for five days, the country's navy said, dashing newfound hope among relatives of the 44 sailors aboard. Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters that the "noise" was analysed and experts determined it was likely "biological".
Argentina's navy says that brief satellite calls that had raised hopes of finding a missing submarine did not come from its 44 crew members on board. Authorities last had contact with the ARA San Juan sub on Wednesday as it journeyed from the extreme southern port of Ushuaia to the coastal city of Mar del Plata.
Efforts to locate an Argentine submarine that has been missing since last week have been ramped up dramatically by a multinational search team of boats and planes, the country's navy says. "We have tripled the search effort, both on the surface and underwater, with 10 airplanes," said Gabriel Galeazzi, a spokesman from the Mar Del Plata Argentine naval base.