The US Navy Intercepted a Submarine Packed To The Brim With 8 Tons of Cocaine

B911 - U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine agents along with U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard personnel intercepted a semi-submersible craft carrying more than 16,870 pounds of cocaine off the coast of El Salvador on July 18.Off the coast of El Salvador.  Law enforcement partners recovered 274 bales of cocaine weighing more than eight tons packed inside the semi-submersible drug-trafficking vessel. The estimated street value of the drugs is hundreds of millions of dollars.Boarding a semi-submersible off the coast of El Salvador. Semi-submersibles are used by drug traffickers to move large amounts of drugs and illicit contraband because the vessel’s low profile can make detection difficult. Similar to a submarine, these custom-built vessels operate with a significant portion of its hull below the waterline. Capturing a semi-submersible can be challenging with smugglers often attempting to scuttle contraband.

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8 TONS of cocaine just floating through the ocean?? Wow. If they caught this one, really makes me wonder how many times submarines don’t get caught. I’m gonna be real honest here, I never even considered the thought of rogue submarines to move drugs. The extent of my drug trade knowledge comes from Breaking Bad, so I just imagine everyone uses fast food trucks and buckets of chicken batter. Where do these people even get a submarine from? Can anyone just buy a submarine? Like if I sell enough tickets to the next bar crawl that I promote can I get into the submarine game? I think that’s when you know you’ve made it in life. Fuck having a private plane, fuck a yacht, if you can pull up in a god damn submarine and make a dramatic entrance to the surface, that’s the most baller shit ever. And as it turns out, you can pack that shit with 8 tons worth of drugs. 16,870 pounds of coke. Have to assume it was a flat 17,000 pounds before the Navy got a hold of it, but that’s neither here nor there. Just goes with my “if you find $30,000 cash in a briefcase, you turn it over to police, but when you found it there was only 20k in it” theorem. You always skim a little something from the top, report the majority of it, and everyone goes home happy.