BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s navy said Friday it has lost contact with a submarine off the country’s southern coast, but doesn’t consider it lost.
The navy’s Twitter feed said that communications were lost Wednesday with the ARA San Juan, a German-built diesel-electric vessel with 44 crewmembers aboard.
It said navy ships and aircraft were searching near the last known location of the vessel off the province of Chubut. It also said it was scanning all possible radio transmission frequencies for a sign of the San Juan.
Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told the Todo Noticias channel that there was no indication of problems from the submarine and said it couldn’t yet be termed lost.
