Posted on 08/06/2015 1:34:17 PM PDT by PROCON
ALAMEDA, Calif. -- A U.S. Coast Guard crew from Alameda, California stopped a semi-submersible vessel carrying more than 16,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean last month -- the largest bust of its kind in Coast Guard history.
CBS San Francisco reports that on July 18, the crew apprehended four suspected smugglers and captured 275 bales of cocaine worth more than $181 million wholesale from the self-propelled semi-submersible (SPSS) vessel, a low-riding vessel often used to smuggle massive quantities of narcotics across the ocean nearly undetected.
But not this time. The U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft found the 40-foot "narco-submarine" more than 200 miles south of Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
In related news, the USCG station at Alameda will host an Intercept Celebration party starting at 8 pm Friday night and ending at no particular time sometime the following week.
8 tons of cocaine...? Jeez Louise!
das Tut.
Uncut.
Congratulations, you win the internet today!
We did pick up that hitchhiker, though...
$25 a gram
Threadwin!
Makes me wonder how many of these homemade subs are at the bottom of the Pacific?
Or how many have not been caught...
Happy Birthday, Coast Guard!
The early versions, at least, were designed by Russians and built with local labor.
Past crews have been local fishermen pressed into service. Their families are held hostage against their success. We can probably assume that the families will be killed as a warning to others not to get caught.
They are quite similar indeed.
The Monitor was an awesome vessel. There were many important innovations that became mainstay features of modern ships.
8 tons of coke? Don’t they know Robin Williams is already dead?
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