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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12661169%255E1702,00.html
"Drug smugglers' DIY submarine found"
From correspondents in Bogota, Colombia
March 26, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "COLOMBIAN police have found a homemade submarine capable of carrying $US200 million ($259.5 million) worth of cocaine on a Pacific Ocean smuggling mission.
Police, who acted on a tip, made no arrests after finding the submarine hidden in the port of Tumaco, near the border with Ecuador, the Administrative Security Department (DAS) detective force said.
It was the second publicised case of Colombian drug smugglers trying to use submarines. In 2000, another underwater vessel was found far from the coast in the Andean mountain capital, Bogota.
"They started building the submarine about six months ago, using small pieces so as not to make people suspicious. They wanted to have it ready for Easter because they thought the police would drop their guard," said Eduardo Fernandez, head of the DAS in the southern province of Valle del Cauca.
He did not say where the submarine appeared to be headed or how far it could travel."