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Argentina releases first images of the submarine San Juan - lost a year ago at 3,000 feet deep with all its crew

Christopher Woody   

Argentina releases first images of the submarine San Juan - lost a year ago at 3,000 feet deep with all its crew
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Argentina navy submarine ARA San Juan

(Argentina Navy via AP File)

The ARA San Juan, a German-built diesel-electric vessel, near Buenos Aires, Argentina, in an undated file photo.

A little over a year after losing contact with the submarine ARA San Juan, the Argentina navy said the wreckage of the sub had been found at the bottom of the southern Atlantic Ocean, where it sank with all 44 of its crew members.

On Sunday, the Argentina navy released the first images of the sub on the seafloor under 2,975 feet of water nearly 400 miles east of the city of Comodoro Rivadavia in Argentina's Patagonia region.

The navy said early on November 16 that a "positive identification" had been made by a remote-operated submersible deployed by Ocean Infinity, a US firm commissioned by the Argentine government that began searching on September 7.

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