Argentina’s navy finds missing submarine a year after disappearance

BUENOS AIRES — Hours after announcing the discovery of an Argentine submarine lost deep in the Atlantic a year ago with 44 crew members aboard, the government said Saturday that it is unable to retrieve the vessel, drawing anger from missing sailors’ relatives who demanded that it be raised.

Defense Minister Oscar Aguad said at a news conference that the country lacks “modern technology” to extract the ARA San Juan, which was found 2,975 feet deep in waters off the Valdes Peninsula in Argentine Patagonia.

Earlier in the morning, the navy said a “positive identification” had been made by a remote-operated submersible from the American company Ocean Infinity.