An Argentine Navy Submarine has been missing for three days with the 44 crew members onboard after contact was lost with the sub off the country's Atlantic coast, the military service reported.
The ARA San Juan submarine was last spotted Wednesday in the San Jorge Gulf, a few hundred kilometers off the coast of southern Argentina's Patagonia region, the navy said.
Crews are searching for the vessel by air and sea, navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told reporters Friday.
According to CNN, The submarine had been traveling from a base in far southern Argentina's Tierra del Fuego archipelago to its home base in Mar del Plata, a city hundreds of miles to the northeast. The sub's last known location in the San Jorge Gulf is nearly midway between the bases and the vessel had been due to arrive at its destination Sunday.
The Argentine navy said it ordered "all terrestrial communication stations along the Argentine coast to carry out a preliminary and extended search of communications and to listen into all the possible frequencies of the submarine."
The United State Navy is helping the Argentine in its search for the sub and has deployed a P8-A Poseidon Maritime aircraft to help with the search mission according to report from CNN.
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