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A few hours before the positive identification, the Argentine Navy tweeted the image of a point of interest on the seabed, suggesting that an object of 60 meters long could be the missing ship.
Images showed relatives of the submariners lost in mourning in Mar del Plata when they learned that the submarine had been found.
The ARA San Juan disappeared last November 15 off the coast of Argentina, halfway from his trip from Ushuaia in the south of the country to its port of Mar del Plata in the north of the country.
The Argentine Navy said in the following days that the ship's captain reported a short circuit in the ship's battery system shortly before the last known contact.
A sound compatible with an explosion was detected in the ocean near the last known location of the submarine.
The hunt for the ship – which at its peak involved 28 ships and nine planes from 11 nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom – hit an area about 900 km off the coast of Argentina.
The Navy canceled its rescue operation about two weeks after the submarine's disappearance, claiming that its crew "had no chance of surviving," but that search efforts were continuing.
