President Mauricio Macri attended and promised to keep up the search for the submarine.Īn anonymous naval officer told the AFP news agency that the vessel could be lifted – at a cost: “Raising the submarine to the surface is not impossible, but it is a very complex operation, and therefore very expensive,” the officer said. The discovery came a day after relatives had gathered at a sombre ceremony to remember their loved ones. Therefore we’re going to demand that the president (of Argentina) finds a way to get (them) out, because it’s possible, the company said so.” Ms Mendiola called on the government to recover the wreck, saying: “If we don’t see it, we can’t have closure. They say that our youngsters are inside,” she said. The company, which uses underwater rovers, previously tried and failed to find the wreckage of the lost Malaysian Airlines MH370 plane.īBC News reported on Friday that Yolanda Mendiola, the mother of missing sailor Leandro Cisneros, 28, said families of the crew had been brought together by the navy to learn the latest details. Argentina had engaged its services after an international operation failed to locate the doomed vessel. The wreck was found by US search firm Ocean Infinity, a private American company which can map the seabed. He said the hull was “totally deformed, collapsed” and that debris was scattered over an area of about 70m (229ft). Navy commander Gabriel Attis has confirmed that the submarine imploded.