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| A narco submarine was discovered off the coast of Colombia containing over two tons of cocaine worth $87 million, as well as two dead bodies. |
The 15-meter-long homemade semi-submersible was found floating in the Pacific over the weekend, most likely bound for Central America, an important corridor for transporting cocaine north toward the United States.
It was when they boarded the sub that the Colombian Marines discovered dead bodies, as well as another two men who were alive but apparently suffering from the effects of poisonous gasses generated by the boat’s fuel.
It’s not clear whether the two people who died suffered from gas and/or carbon monoxide poisoning.
Video from the seizure provided by the Colombian government showed one unconscious man being removed on a stretcher and carried towards what looks like a parked ambulance. Authorities said both sick men were transported to Tumaco on the Colombian Pacific coast.
Footage showed the vessel floating low and motionless in the open sea, and soldiers pulling packages of cocaine out of the vessel's hull, which was flooded. Photos of the seizure don’t depict a chase. It’s possible that the homemade sub had been idling in the water before it was discovered by the authorities.
The 2.6 tons of cocaine retrieved from the semi-submersible, much of it wrapped in black plastic, can be seen in the footage being transferred onto a Colombian military vessel floating alongside the narco sub, filling it completely.
With this operational deployment that had foreign support, more than $87 million were prevented from entering the financial structures of drug trafficking organizations that commit crimes in the Colombian Pacific, and more than 6 million doses from circulating in the international illegal market.
The Colombian Navy will continue deploying all its capabilities to counter the scourge of drug trafficking structures that commit crimes in the Colombian Pacific.
Source Armada de Colombia, VICE, On Demand News
"Home made sub" a lot of technological skills and resources are needed for a submarine .
ReplyDeleteThese aren't fully submersible submarines in the context that you are thinking.
Deletethey arent quit subs, more like topless boats
DeleteSome of the first electronic computers were home made; the Arbet car (world's smallest) is home made; PCB enthusiasts make their boards at home; Emm, every human is home made (or back seat of a car).
DeleteGerman UBoat technology from 1939
DeleteIts not so difficult to clue fibre class and epoxy together, it’s actually pretty easy.
DeleteWith better machinery and doing vacuuming the fibre epoxy stuff and hot air treatment afterwards you get a very strong but lightweight material.
$87 million dollar lesson for the engineers (if they are still alive) that designed and likely coordinated the assembly of the sub.
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The math doesn’t add up for 2.6 tons. That’s a lot more than 87 million dollars.
ReplyDeleteMore than that ? Are you graming the entire load ? Depending on the final destination still no more than 50 million .
Delete19k per then. Sounds insane
Delete9:09 That’s what I was thinking
DeleteWorks out to about 29k a K if I'm not severely mistaken.. 27-30 a pop is a good universal guesstimate I suppose..
ReplyDeleteI wld think if one my criminal coke smugling bodies die on the trip with me I wld toss his dead body the fuck out the sub. Why the hell this dudes hanging out with 2 dead mofos and a shitload of coke?
ReplyDeleteI think they were unconscious and about to die as well. They probably were overcome by the noxious fumes and disoriented and the 2 passed out first and died while the other 2 were unconscious and on their way out as well if they hadn't been discovered.
DeleteThere were only 2 persons, the boat only fitted 2, where da hell you come up with another 2??????
DeleteBecause the 2 people that were on the boat died, before the shipment was to be delivered, some narcos, and some families will be killed for losing the load.
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