An impounded Narco-SubFrom The Guardian:
Mangrove boatyards build to order for traffickers supplying US market.
Slicing through milky green waters, a Colombian navy patrol wove through the maze of mangroves in the remote Sanquianga national park on the Pacific coast, following a tip.
After eight days, the search paid off. Hidden deep within the boa-infested swampland, the patrol came upon a 60ft hull propped up on a scaffold under a tin-roofed hangar. This was no ordinary shipyard, and it was no ordinary vessel.
Shipbuilders had been putting the finishing fibreglass touches to the hull of what is known here as a narco-sub. Had they finished, the vessel would have been loaded with as much as four tonnes of cocaine and put to sea, headed north, to the US market.
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My Comment: This is not safe by any means .... but I guess the potential profits will motivate anyone to try this.
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