20 Nov 2006
Submarine with cocaine seized off Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – The U.S. Coast Guard seized a homemade submarine carrying 3.5 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica and arrested two Colombians, a Guatemalan and a Sri Lankan, Costa Rican officials and media reported Sunday.
The submarine, made of wood and fiberglass, was 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 Navy should ask to borrow this for ASW training…
November 20th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Does that make 50 or 60 that have been caught in last decade?
November 20th, 2006 at 11:30 am
DJ: Yeah, there have been quite a few, but how many have got through? Maybe if we’d depth charge them instead of arresting them it would dissaude others…
November 20th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Stories like this always make me wonder if there’s some way we can profit off of this stuff to bolster drug enforcement (or other) budgets. Is there somewhere that we can sell the stuff to make a net good? I dunno, just thinking out loud…