Argentina says it may have received signals from missing sub

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Argentina says it may have received signals from missing sub
ABC News

Argentina's Navy detected seven brief satellite calls Saturday that officials believe may have come from a submarine with 44 crew members that hadn't been heard from in three days.

The communication attempts "indicate that the crew is trying to re-establish contact, so we are working to locate the source of the emissions," the Navy said on its Twitter account, adding that the calls lasted between four and 36 seconds.

Argentine authorities clarified that it has not been confirmed the calls came from the submarine, the ARA San Juan, though that is the working hypothesis.

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Missing Argentine Navy sub may have sent distress signals, US Navy sends help
Fox News, Nov 19, 2017

Emergency signals believed to have come from Argentina's missing naval submarine with 44 crew members were detected Saturday, as the U.S. Navy prepares to send a second sub-hunting aircraft to area to help with the search.

Argentina's Navy said it detected seven brief satellite calls late Saturday that officials believe may have come from the ARA San Juan, which hasn't been heard from since Wednesday.

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The U.S. Navy announced late Saturday it was sending a P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance plane with a crew of 21 will depart from Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday, according to a statement from the U.S. Southern Command. The P-8 will join a NASA P-3 plane and another Navy P-8 already taking part in the search.





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U.S. Navy rescue team joins search for missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan
NBC News, Nov 20, 2017, Yuliya Talmazan

A U.S. Navy rescue crew from San Diego has joined the international search effort for a Argentine submarine and its 44 crew members missing for several days beneath the stormy southern Atlantic Ocean.

Navy sailors with Undersea Rescue Command (URC) departed Miramar Saturday with a Submarine Rescue Chamber (SRC) and four aircraft, en route to where the ARA San Juan lost contact with the Argentine Navy Wednesday.

As waves of up to 20 feet complicated the search, authorities spent Sunday analyzing data from possible satellite calls that were thought to have been made from the vessel.

"We analyzed these signals, which as we know were intermittent and weak," said Gabriel Galeazzi, a naval commander. "They could not help determine a point on the map to help the search."


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