Submarine with cocaine seized off Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: US Coast Guards have seized a submarine carrying 3.5 tons of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and arrested three Colombians on board, the Costa Rican Coast Guard said on Sunday.
The submarine appeared to be a makeshift vessel unlike military submarines or those used by oceanographers. It could only submerge 6 feet under water, Costa Rican Coast Guard spokesman Jose Antonio Fallas told Reuters.
The 45-foot-long vessel was found last Wednesday near the remote Coco Island, southwest of the Central American mainland, and had traveled hundreds of miles from Colombia on its way to the United States.
It was taken to the Costa Rican port of Puntarenas where it arrived during the weekend. The Colombians were taken to the United States to be prosecuted, Fallas said.
The U.S. Coast Guard frequently patrols for drug shipments off Costa Rica but the latest seizure was believed to be the first time a submarine has been caught there
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By: pred - 18th December 2006 at 21:42
Think I read a story couple days after this which claims the submarine was in fact a cigarette boat sitting very low in the water with some kind of rigged up exhaust/snorkel. Semi submersible at best. Iranian Navy and/or Pasadran militia use some kind of semi-sub speedboat that can reach 40kts and dive to a couple feet (not at that speed maybe).
Edit: Shame to waste this as a drugs runabout, but may be the ultimate … same guys do faster things though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMsUXUQx-XI
By: Funkycartel_1 - 18th December 2006 at 21:12
Also of great importance would be who were involved in the construction and design. Probably not only Colombians…
By: Ja Worsley - 18th December 2006 at 19:20
Pitty there are no pics around of this, I’d have like to have seen what the design was and how it might have been constructed.
By: Merlock - 22nd November 2006 at 12:13
This remind me that around year 2000 an almost finished “homemade” submarine hab been sized by the police (in Colombia ? but I’m not sure any more)…
Apprently the idea has not been abandonned.. :rolleyes:
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November 22, 2006 at 7:48 am