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Authorities seize homemade submarine from Colombian drug gangs
Deutsche Presse-Agentur ^

Posted on 07/25/2007 10:12:37 PM PDT by esryle

Bogota - Colombian authorities seized a homemade submarine allegedly used by drug traffickers for smuggling in Pacific waters in the north-western Choco province on the Panamanian border.

'This type of boat had a capacity to transport approximately four tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride in its interior,' the Colombian Navy said in a statement Wednesday.

The vessel is the third submarine seized by Colombian authorities on the Pacific coast.

The Navy noted that four people were arrested, and the authorities also seized a radio, a portable energy generator and other elements.

According to the official source, drug gangs have used this and other methods to transport illegal substances to destinations in Central and North America.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: choco; cocaine; cocainehydrochloride; columbia; panama; submarine; submarines; wod; wodlist
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To: SIDENET

What are those pipes at the top? Was this thing able to fully submerge?


21 posted on 07/26/2007 4:33:17 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: Calpernia

Thanks for the alert, kinda makes me nervous, glad I don’t live on the coast.


22 posted on 07/26/2007 4:35:20 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( Today is a good day for working on some heavy praying. The world needs God to hear them.)
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To: esryle

Ever heard of people smuggling corn syrup or flour across borders? How about on a sub? Ever heard of someone stealing and killing over these products?


23 posted on 07/26/2007 4:37:47 AM PDT by ItisaReligionofPeace
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To: esryle

We need to build an underwater fence, and a giant bubble dome that covers our entire country.


24 posted on 07/26/2007 8:47:38 AM PDT by TKDietz
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To: esryle

This isn’t the first time a sub has been found. The WOD is starting to take on unusual permutations.


25 posted on 07/26/2007 11:55:05 AM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq -- via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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To: sr4402

I may be way off, but I think those may be some sort of muffler system to keep the sub quiet when it’s on top of the water.


26 posted on 07/26/2007 11:59:18 AM PDT by Tex Pete
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To: esryle

I so much as a kid wanted one of these Polaris Nuclear Submarine sold in comic books... According to the ad it fires rockets and torpedoes, it is over 7 feet long, and it is big enough to take two kids on an underwater adventure they won’t soon forget.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.getafreemonkey.com/scans/sub.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.getafreemonkey.com/submarine.html&h=488&w=700&sz=161&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=4IKp42G0DIMnVM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcomic%2Bbook%2Bsubmarine%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN


27 posted on 07/26/2007 11:59:53 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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