In a first, true narco sub seized in S. America (100')

Chron ^ | 07/03/2010 | DANE SCHILLER

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Enforcement mechanism?

[FrankR]

two words....DEPTH CHARGES

[mylife]

A Coca class sub I presume?

[Candor7]

Hey Juan, can jou 'and me de sliff an' I can get uZ all STONED in theese sub!

Dibe, dibe,diBe!

They must have others, operating at night , unlike these morones.

[Pan_Yan]

DEA Helps Ecuadorian Police Seize Drug Sub

[TigersEye]

People think the oil is killing wildlife? Wait until the U.S. Navy hits a sub full of coke with a depth charge. /s

[Pan_Yan]

Here's a picture of the sub with a soldier standing on it for size reference.

More pictures here.

[OldDeckHand]

She doesn't look nearly as impressive up close and personal. You can see the seem. This is a fiberglass (or carbon-fiber, at best) "submersible", constructed out of split-mold fiberglass/foam sandwich. You can make out some kind of reinforced wrapping around the hull.

It's probably only water-tight to something well-less than two fathoms, if that. She may be more "fully submersible" but not by much, and I certainly wouldn't want to be aboard.

[SmartInsight]

“The submarine’s nautical range, payload capacity and quantum leap in stealth have raised the stakes for the counter-drug forces and the national security community alike.”

Thanks for the additional info and pictures.

And if anyone believes that this was really built in the middle of the jungle by some drug-smugglers, I have lots of bridges and land to sell them.

This must have come from a country in cahoots with the drug smugglers (and if they can smuggle drugs, they could smuggle nukes or bio-weapons too), but the US doesn’t want to admit it, because then they would have to actually do something about it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Close the border AND decriminalize all drugs. It will defund the drug lords and take away much of the government’s excuse for stealing our liberties.

[GSP.FAN]

You only live twice.;>)

[Lmo56]

They shoulda let it go into the ocean, then drop a Mark-48 torpedo in the water. No way the sub could outrun it and the druglords who [no doubt] would be watching the maiden voyage from the beach would be scared to sh*t ... BOOM !!!

[mvpel]

This must have come from a country in cahoots with the drug smugglers (and if they can smuggle drugs, they could smuggle nukes or bio-weapons too), but the US doesn’t want to admit it, because then they would have to actually do something about it.

No, no, no - they bought it at a gun show in Texas!!

[Jack Hydrazine]

So our ASW subs should be doing drug interdiction these days?

[stuartcr]

If there was just some way we could take the huge profits out of drug smuggling, the smugglers couldn’t afford things like this.

[mvpel]

But, I'd point out that the profit motive of the drug cartels shouldn't be underestimated.

Especially when US cops are helping the drug cartels corner the American market by busting American marijuana growers, like this grandmother:

She got higher bail than a drunk driver here in New Hampshire who went on to drunkenly drive his car into a line of motorcyclists, killing one of them, less than twenty-four hours after his release.

[Lmo56]

So our ASW subs should be doing drug interdiction these days?

No - helo drop. Use sonabuoys to detect the sub. Only gotta do this once - no one will want to man a second sub after the first one is blown to sh*t ...

[GingisK]

I loved that movie! James Mason, Peter Lori, and Kirk Douglas. The remake was really terrible.

[FreeStateYank]

Anyone recall reading about the disappearance of four unmanned subs in the Chesapeake a couple of weeks ago?

Most interesting. My thought is why try the drug subbies- just sink the damned thing.

[Pan_Yan]

I loved that movie! James Mason, Peter Lori, and Kirk Douglas.

We rented it for the kids. They watched it three times.