On Saturday, U.S. Southern Command directed the Navy to deploy a P-8A Poseidon multi-mission maritime aircraft to Bahia Blanca, Argentina, to search for the ARA San Juan, a German-built, diesel-electric vessel. Argentia's government, which has been searching for the ship from the air and sea, requested the U.S. help.
Argentina lost radio contact with the sub on Wednesday.
- "The submarine knows that if it does not have communication with land for this long, it has to surface," Argentina's Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told CNN.
"We are committed to use all the national and international resources that are necessary to find the submarine ARA San Juan as soon as possible," Argentine President Mauricio Macri posted on Twitter Friday.
The sub's last known location was in the San Jorge Gulf, between where it departed from southern Argentina's Tierra del Fuego archipelago and its home base in Mar del Plata. The trip was supposed to be around 1,800 miles.
A P-8A Poseidon, which includes a 21-person crew, will depart from El Salvador's Comalapa Air Base.
[upi.com]
18/11/17
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