12,000 lbs of cocaine seized in submarine

[dennis in se pa]

This is interesting. I am glad they got this stash, but what right does the US actually have 200 miles south of Mexico in international waters?

Coast Guard seizes $181 million in cocaine from sub - CNN.com

[biosurfer1]

They (state department) have to get permission from the vessel's flag nation to board if there is suspicion...if there is no flag nation, as I would expect in this case, fair game.

[not sharp]

In naval terms that is balast

[dennis in se pa]

Originally Posted by biosurfer1

They (state department) have to get permission from the vessel's flag nation to board if there is suspicion...if there is no flag nation, as I would expect in this case, fair game.

Thank you. That makes sense.

[URY914]

So the USCG are the new Pirates of the Caribbean?

[island911]

So the sub ended up sinking, but most of the coke was rescued.

I expect the reason the sub took on water was because of a YouTube video.

I do wonder why they wouldn't track the sub for a while.

[rusnak]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWD9wqtPqzQ

[vash]

$11300 per pound? Is that right? Then they cut it right? Or did they work that into the numbers already?

My drug knowledge is pretty G rated


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[rattlsnak]

I saw an article in Wired magazine a few months ago that detailed these operations. They are home built subs, usually from Ecuador or Columbia. Crazy..

[aigel]

Who uses all this coke? This is amazing per capita, I am sure.

G

[vash]

Originally Posted by rattlsnak

I saw an article in Wired magazine a few months ago that detailed these operations. They are home built subs, usually from Ecuador or Columbia. Crazy..

My friend and I made a home made sub when we were kids. His hamster hated it.

It lived, but we traumatized it for sure.


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[craigster59]

[speeder]

Originally Posted by aigel

Who uses all this coke? This is amazing per capita, I am sure.

G

We do. Americans, that is.

[legion]

Did it look like this?

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by vash

My friend and I made a home made sub when we were kids. His hamster hated it.

It lived, but we traumatized it for sure.

My neighbor and I built one when we were in 6th grade. We found the plans in some magazine. We soldered a bunch of tin cans together to make a long tube. The lids were all removed from the middle ones. We soldered a streamlined bow, stern and fins to that. The conning tower was a small paint can with a press in lid. It was open to the main compartment below. On the bottom of the main compartment was soldered a copper tube that was bent 90° to toward the stern and crimped almost flat at the open end. There was some ballast in the keel and a wire basket in the conning tower. There was some sort of a check valve in the lid of the conning tower, just a flap on the inside. Plop a hand full of alka-seltzer, fizzy or carbide tablets in the basket, seal the lid, put it in a pond and it would sink. Water would come in the bottom through the copper tube. Once the water covered up the tablets they started to fizz, closing the valve and forcing water out the copper nozzle. It would take off and fully surface before the fizz wore off. Only problem was it would sink for good when the tablets were used up. Then it was time to go diving to retrieve it.

[Arizona_928]

They build those in the columbian jungle. Very impressive for what they are.

[KevinP73]

Aww crap, there goes my weekend.

[Nickshu]

[fred cook]

Originally Posted by legion

Did it look like this?

That would be the Confederate submarine the Hunley. If I remember correctly, it had a crew of eight and was armed with a spar torpedo. It sank the USS Houstatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Unfortunately, the sub was also lost and not found until along about 1995 or so. It was sitting in only 35 feet of water! It is now being preserved at the old Charleston naval base.

[porsche4life]

The one in that picture is from the show archer....



And damnit! Now I need a new supplier!