La policA a y los soldados forman un cA rculo de protecciA3n alrededor de los familiares angustiados del tripulante Celso Oscar Vallejo del submarino argentino desaparecido mientras son escoltados a la base naval de Mar de Plata, en Argentina, el jueves 23 de noviembre de 2017. People pray for the crew of the missing submarine outside the navy base in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017.
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.
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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.