No trace of Argentina sub, 12 days after it vanished
Bahía Blanca, Argentina,(MILLAT ONLINE):An international flotilla backed by aircraft on Monday again probed the South Atlantic for signs of an Argentine submarine missing for 12 days, targeting an area near the vessel’s last known position where an explosion was detected.
A total of 15 countries, including the United States, Britain, Russia and France, are helping to search for the ARA San Juan, which has 44 crew members on board. It last made contact with Argentina’s navy on November 15.
The search operation extends for a 22-mile (35-kilometer) radius from an area about 250 miles off the coast of Argentina — around the location of the explosion that may have sent the vessel to the bottom of the ocean.
“Unfortunately, we still have not located or detected the San Juan submarine,” Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said Monday in Buenos Aires.
Balbi also confirmed the Russian navy’s intelligence ship Yantar — equipped with a submarine capable of descending 6,000 meters underwater — will arrive to assist with the search on December 5.