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A fully-submersible drug submarine capable of reaching the coast of Mexico has been found in Colombia.


While another such submarine was seized last July just across the border in Ecuador, this is the first time the Colombian authorities have seized a fully-submersible sub.

They had previously only found semi-submersible boats, where part of the structure always remains above the surface.

The vessel was discovered in a rural area of Cauca province on the Timgiqui River, about 275 miles southwest of the capital, Bogota.
It is capable of holding about eight tonnes of drugs, Colombia naval spokesman, Colonel Manuel Hurtado said.

The sub would have taken about eight months to build
The boat was discovered following intelligence reports and tips from informants.

The submarine was empty when found, and no-one was captured.
The 99ft (30m) fibre-glass boat had two diesel engines powered up and ready to go.

With room for a crew of six, it could submerge up to 9ft and had a capacity to sail totally under water to the coast of Mexico without surfacing in a trip that would take eight or nine days, Col Hurtado said.
The sub would have taken up to eight months to build and cost around £1.7m, he said.

Colombia has seized at least 32 semi-submersible vessels designed to smuggle drugs over the past decade, including 12 last year.
Colombia: Authorities Seize First Fully Submersible Drug-Smuggling Submarine Able To Reach Mexico | World News | Sky News
 
Tamil Tigers, with machine guns and grenade droppers mounted on their single prop light aircrafts; Mexican drug cartels with their own mini subs.......

it really shows what lengths such groups, which have no shortage of funds and manpower, will go to carry out their ''missions''

the Mexican-Arizona border is becoming no man's land; a very restive region rampant with smuggling/crime attributed to this dirty trade.
 
Colombian drug lords using Submarines is not something new.
Pablo Escobar used to use submarines to smuggle drugs too.
 
Colombian drug lords using Submarines is not something new.
Pablo Escobar used to use submarines to smuggle drugs too.

They don't even have to use subs really. Merchant ships have had limpet-like attachments fixed to their hulls while in ports in the Carribbean. Now think about finding an attachment on a 600-700 ft ship's hull with an attachment 25-30 ft below the surface.
Actually in ports like Cartagena in Colombia; it is a SOP to have Zodiac borne frogmen patrolling round the clock to forestall similar actions.
 
Illegal dug trade never miss the news. It's like every time I turn the TV on to see what's on the news, drug trade issues is always on the list. The Colombian military has foiled several smugglers in South America by finding a cocaine-filled drug smuggling submarine before it left on its quest. These crafts are not true submarines because they do not entirely submerge however rather cruise along with only part of the hull over water. Drug submarines, or narco subs, are not detectable by sonar.
 

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