New mission to find Argentine sub that sank with 44 crew on board

Buenos Aires : A US vessel will begin a new search for the missing Argentine submarine that disappeared last year with 44 crew members on board, the ministry of defense said Thursday. The Seabed Constructor, owned by the company Ocean Infinity, will set out yesterday from the port of Comodoro Rivadavia, some 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles)south of Buenos Aires, carrying both Argentine sailors and relatives of the missing submariners.

“We feel this is the last opportunity to find them. And we want to find out what happened,” said Luis Tagliapietra, whose son Alejandro was a lieutenant on the San Juan. Ocean Infinity was also assigned the task of searching for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which vanished without trace in March 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.