Eight ships continue search for missing Argentine submarine
Argentina's navy has announced that three new "objects" have been spotted as it expands the search area for a missing submarine.
The ARA San Juan submarine was lost 23 days ago in the South Atlantic. Its crew, 43 men and one woman, are presumed dead.
Navy spokesman Captain Enrique Balbi said on Friday the Argentine navy in cooperation with other nations continued the search.
"To give you an idea, it's like trying to find a 6-cm cigarette on a football field of 100 meters by 40 meters," Balbi said at the daily press conference on the state of the search.
Three ships will inspect three new "objects" detected with sonars at different depths.
"The (Russian vessel) Yantar is inspecting an object at 940 meters. The warning (Argentine) Falkland Islands is trying to visualize an object at 830 meters and the (American) Atlantis, when it rejoins this Friday, will go for another object at 770 meters, "said Balbi.
In total, there are eight ships taking part in the search operation.
"It is planned to expand the circular area, the area of greatest probability of occurrence, to the north, which is what the submarine would have done in its direct navigation to Mar del Plata", its station, 400 kilometers south of Buenos Aires. The submersible was lost about 350 kilometers from the coasts of Patagonia.
The search area covers depths between 200 and 1,000 meters, according to the spokesman.
The relatives of the 44 crew members of the missing submarine demand that President Mauricio Macri and the military not stop the task of a possible rescue.
"We want to see the bodies, to take them out," said Yolanda Mendiola, the mother of crew member Leandro Fabian Cisneros, 28, in front of the Mar del Plata naval base.
Mendiola said she would not return to her hometown of Jujuy until they retrieved her son's body.
The ARA San Juan is one of the three submarines in the Argentine Navy. Out of the remaining two, one is out of service needing repair.
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