[iowamark]

Not actually a submarine.

[Eddie01]

NSV Nearly Sunken Vessel

made that up

[vette6387]

It should have just been used for target practice! Only when and if we “raise the stakes,” will this method of transportation of illicit drugs stop. I guess the only downside would be some “high” fish.

[BatGuano]

Good work Coasties!!!

[COBOL2Java]

Not actually a submarine.

Narco-submarine

A narco-submarine (also called drug sub and Bigfoot submarine) is a type of custom-made ocean-going self-propelled submersible vessel built by drug traffickers to smuggle drugs. They are especially known to be used by Colombian drug cartel members to export cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, which is often then transported overland to the United States.

Newer narco-submarines are fully submersible, designed specifically to be difficult to detect visually or by radar, sonar and infrared systems.

Cargoes carried are typically several tons of cocaine. For example, in 2015 the largest cargo of 7.7 tonnes (17,000 lb) was seized on a semi-submersible which had been tracked by aircraft.

Narco-submarine moments before interception by the U.S. Coast Guard in August 2007.