A sailor walks past homemade semi-submersible vessels, seized on land by Colombian authorities from alleged drug traffickers, at the Bahia Malaga Navy base on Colombia's Pacific coast. Twenty-three semi-subs have been captured in the last three years. CHRISTIAN ESCOBAR MORA / Associated Press From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
A 2008 law bans semi-submersible vessels, widely used by South American drug smugglers.
BOGOTA, Colombia - It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface.
A Coast Guard ship dispatches an armed team to board the small, submarine-like craft in search of cocaine. Crew members wave and jump into the sea to be rescued, but not before they open flood valves and send the fiberglass hulk and its cargo into the deep.
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My Comment: You know that the money must be good if the drug smugglers are willing to invest in this type of hardware as well as having a crew that are willing to risk their lives for such a mission.
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