(23 Nov 2017) Ships and a plane searching for a missing Argentine submarine with 44 crew members will return to a previously scoured area after officials said on Wednesday that a noise made a week ago in the South Atlantic could provide a clue to the vessel's location.
Argentina Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi said the "hydro-acoustic anomaly" was examined by the United States and specialist agencies, and they determined that it was produced on Nov. 15, just hours after the final contact with the ARA San Juan and could have come from the sub.
It was about 30 miles north of its last registered position.
"It's a noise; we don't want to speculate" about it, Balbi said.
But he added that Argentine Navy ships and a Brazilian Air Force plane will return to the area to check out the clue, even though the area had already been searched.
On land, relatives of submarine's crew were growing increasingly distressed as experts say that the vessel lost for seven days might be reaching a critical period of low oxygen.
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