I'll take the heart exploding, flipping out and killing the other 3 crew members after snorting up a brick route, over the slow agonizing russian way of dying in a sub any day. Keep in mind, 2 of these vessels have been discovered in the past couple months, from this, i deduce there are others.

djdare

Well, if you are in the crew, knowing it's going to sink, you can still have 12 tons of yeyo to make it less painful!

Palestina

ttp:// g1.globo.com/Noticias/Mundo/0,,MUL77182-5602,00.html

Sorry try this one

Jeremias

I dunno, I can think of better subs to die a slow painful death in. The Nautilus would be way more satisfying.

MagnoliaBoy

holy fucking shit, this one is the second sub used for drug traffic, that was captured.

here a link of the first one(which I send the story for you guys)[g1.globo.com],,MUL77182-5602,00.html

Jeremias

"We all live in a yellow, wait, WHITE submarine, a white submarine, a white submarine........."

golferal

Dude I send that story almost 2 months ago, no kidding.

Or It could be the second home made sub for drug traffic???

Jeremias

to the batman theme song: dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun coke sub, coke sub

windowi

Im guessing painful death would ensue, fibreglass really isnt made to withstand high pressure (pressure like a submarine would be exposed too). Leave submarine building to the professionals.

tin

@Jeremias:

é Jeremias, parece que fazer submarinos pra máfia do pó tem sido um negócio promissor...

AndersonBMX

Even if they did successfully launch it, it would have been sunk by Navy subs. Running drugs is one thing, but infiltrating US waters in a sub is definitely something that the Navy will want to stop.

Mecharine

Colombia has a Marine Corps???

homerjay

I hope these drug traffickers are not giving terrorist any idea.

Jakariwo

@Moonshadow101: If colombia has any sort of radar though they are guaranteed to get caught, i mean large underwater objects scare the shit outta the authorities. Fish just arent that big, and i dont think colombia has many whales.

tin

@AndersonBMX:

WTF???? Voce por aqui???

Jeremias

@djdare: FTA:

Rudimentary submarines and submersible containers dragged behind container ships are among the more inventive transport methods used by traffickers. Since 2005, Colombia's navy has captured 11 homemade submarines.

Dios mio!

StealthPersona

@tin: One assumes it wouldn't have to go very deep. They're not trying to avoid warships or advanced radar, just guys with binoculars.

Moonshadow101

just as stealthpersona said these are not to travel inside, but to be dragged below a large ship, nearing the intended destination the "crew" of the sub gets in (diving i suppose) and drifts in the current to the intended beach, or the more sophisticated might be powered.

Tensor

How would it be a slow death? They have 12 tons of smack on board! Sounds like a sub party to me.

P3nnst8r

@Altanader: how many points for a submarine?

Roflcopter_Down

www.mycokerewards.com

LOL

Altanader

One down; how many out there?

PHJ

@MIKEAWESOME:

"OR, if you could weight them enough (if they would or wouldn't float in the first place) you could just let them sink, then get the cargo sink then get it back later on a dive."

"Them" refers to the load of blow, which I didn't specify.

"Them sink, then get the cargo sink" is just a wreck of a sentence, should be "the cargo sink." The rest is superfluous.

MIKEAWESOME

Mannnnnn. Drug dealers have all the good ideas.

Though, if these guys were just a little smarter, they could've added a "flush" feature to the sub to get all the blow off the ship quickly.

Voila, "I'm sorry officer, is it illegal to have a recreational submersible?" then just take the fine. OR, if you could weight them enough (if they would or wouldn't float in the first place) you could just let them sink, then get the cargo sink then get it back later on a dive.

Mannnnnn. Drug dealers have all the half-assed ideas.

MIKEAWESOME

@homerjay:

Pretty much any country with access to an ocean has a Marine Corps. For a list look here : [en.wikipedia.org]

Redwraithvienna

where there's a will, and a gazillion dollars to back it up, you KNOW there's a way. this is why the 'war on drugs' has been a dismal HORRIFIC failure, costing billions of dollars, perhaps trillions if you consider the US police force has more than quadrupled since its inception in the early 80s and the prison population has also more than quadrupled since then too, primarily due to its consequences. Are drugs on the street any more expensive than they were in the early 80s? No, and actually, considering inflation, and the devalued dollar, they are cheaper than ever. Are drugs less AVAILABLE on the streets than in the early 80s? Ummmm, that was a rhetorical question. Please do NOT feel the need to put down your bong, your mirror, your needle, or your pills in order to answer that one.

Cheers.

banmojo

Yeah! and here in Spain we have the oldest Marine corps of the world (since 1.537).

In fact, MORIA was built by Colombian smugglers, then when it became obsolete the Dwarfves used it as a home. That's why Dwarfs are always hunger and never shave, or something. Ok, I'll TFSU.

valis

@Jeremias:
quem seria você?
me conhece de onde?
hahahahahaha

AndersonBMX

@AndersonBMX:

Diego pá, amigo do Marcos.
Abracos mano

Jeremias

@Ander Garmendia: No, the US Government doesn't care. Not even about us.

If we were green or could be loaded into a secret fund somewhere we would count.

Besides, we won the war on drugs, remember?
Just like the ones we won against poverty, illiteracy and racism.

This has been Strider's cynicism moment for Thursday, November 22, 2007.

strider_mt2k

Colombia has been making these for more than ten years. More than FIVE TONS of cocaine are consumed in the US every DAY. How do you think the drug makes it there? There are hundreds of these that make it safely to US shores every month, with some well bribed US officials looking the other way.

The hundreds of thousands of innocent people that have died because of this, are all Colombian, so the US government doesn't care. It's not like the Al Capone days, when the mafia war was fought on US soil. Back then, the government WAS interested in stopping the war, so it captured the bad guys and ended prohibition. If the dead people today were not Colombian but American, they would do the same. But they don't care for foreign deaths.

Ander Garmendia

I am Colombian and writing from Colombia. Drug dealers here have been making submarines since the mid nineties (at least that's when the police found out about it). They have probably intercepted a couple dozen or so in the last ten years. I am sure there as HUNDREDS sailing the Pacific and Atlantic waters everyday, and 99.99% of those trips safely reach their destination in the US. The US consumption of Cocaine is about FIVE TONS per DAY!!! How do you think that much cocaine makes it there every single day? Of course, the US has the technology to put a stop to this, but drug money is so big that those high officials in the US take a piece of the pie in order to look the other way. It's incredible how people cannot stop and think about these facts.

The war on drugs is a joke. It has cost the US millions of dollars, but it has cost Colombia hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths, and the decomposition of its society. When the war on alcohol was fought on the streets of New York City and Chicago, the US put a stop to it (Al Capone and friends). But now the deaths happen outside the US borders, so they don't care about it. The only way to end this madness is to legalize all drugs, and control them the way tobacco and alcohol are controlled. Until then, thousands of innocent people will die every year.

Ander Garmendia

FYI - here's a pic of one of the subs at sea -
[cdn-72.liveleak.com]

outlanderssc

@tin:
Actually, this one made it 750 miles to Costa Rica until the PVC vent pipes were spotted by the Costa Rican Coast Guard - seems like the engineering is functional if not optimal -

[www.cbsnews.com]

outlanderssc

@Jeremias:
hahahahahahaha
massa
abração

AndersonBMX

(a bit later)

"Every one of us, has all we need..."

strider_mt2k

I just think it's funny that they created a Das Boot tag for the story...

eltigro