I’m no submarine expert…..

[7.62willdo]

But powering one with outboards seems a little screwy to me.

Colombian navy seizes mystery submarine with more than ton of cocaine, 2 lifeless bodies on board

Nearly 3,000 pounds of cocaine worth about $87 million were located in a submarine in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, the Colombian navy announced.

www.foxnews.com

 

[db2000]

I mean, have ya tried cocaine and brainstorming.

 

[buffalowinter]

I guess they're really called semi-submersibles. Gotta give em credit for creativity, if not quality control.

 

[acudaowner]

cocaine is a hell of a drug .


I wonder how many of those things sank before making it to open water and again how many sank in open water when a hand pump is your only method to keep if afloat .

 

[akmike47]

And only several years behind the times, they've been stopping these for years nothing new

 

[triumph001]

WTF? I dont know what intrigues me more. The homemade mini sub or the fact that Colombia has a Navy.

Maybe @mikeinfwa can share a few seamen anecdotes from his travels to Colombia. Oh Wait, wrong thread.

 

[Im2bent]

Isn't @TheGerman the resident submariner?

 

[TicTacTex]

 

[308pirate]

 

[UKDslayer]

They need a raise!

 

[mikeinfwa]

WTF? I dont know what intrigues me more. The homemade mini sub or the fact that Colombia has a Navy.

Maybe @mikeinfwa can share a few seamen anecdotes from his travels to Colombia. Oh Wait, wrong thread.

Colombian Navy assets in Cartagena

 

[308pirate]

WTF? I dont know what intrigues me more. The homemade mini sub or the fact that Colombia has a Navy.

Maybe @mikeinfwa can share a few seamen anecdotes from his travels to Colombia. Oh Wait, wrong thread.

Armada Nacional | Protegemos el Azul de la Bandera

www.armada.mil.co

 

[Mr.BR]

I guess they're really called semi-submersibles. Gotta give em credit for creativity, if not quality control.

The are built in the middle of the jungle in improvised shops so they are quite impressive ,given conditions where they are built under and nature of their mission which is to make one one way trip.
Some are true submarines but most are just low-profile boats

H I Sutton - Covert Shores

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

I guess they're really called semi-submersibles. Gotta give em credit for creativity, if not quality control.

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Exactamente compa.

They aint "submarines" in the sense of a nation-state's Navy.
Theyre made to sit right at the waterline to avoid radar and be very hard to see. They seem to be more successful than go-fast boats and have largely replaced that method of running the Coast Guard/DEA gauntlet.

However theres been rumors for years now that the Sinaloa Cartel, the Norte del Valle Cartel, los Urabenos, and others were able to successfully get their hands on a legit old Soviet sub or possibly even built one themselves(this is a huge ask) but none have been intercepted on the high seas to date. I believe they caught a true sub in the middle of construction as @Mr.BR posted...

"El Rey" Zambada in the Chapo trial testified that Chapo has(err.. had) multiple true subs, not just semi-subs.

Im more interested in cases like this..

CIA Torture Jet wrecks with 4 Tons of COCAINE

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2007 Yucatan Gulfstream drug crash - Wikispooks

www.wikispooks.com

 

[Mr.BR]

Columbian cartels were actually shopping for one of the Soviet subs parked in Ukraine in the early 90's but ultimately deal did not go trough.

Former mob enforcer and strip club owner Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg, exotic car importer Juan Almeida and Cuban immigrant Nelson 'Tony' Yester ,planned to buy a Soviet submarine for the Cali drug cartel of Colombia for the purposes of trafficking cocaine
Tarzan and Tony even toured a Russian naval base and posed near a submarine with Russian military officers to show the cartel evidence the deal could be done.

 

[accurate obsession]

Colombian Navy
Just trying to catch the narcos who won't pay the export bribe---- ahem "tax"

 

[Halfnutz]

Of the ones that sink, we may get a sequel to "Cocaine Bear"- "Cocaine Shark"

 

[c1steve]

It would not be that hard to build, especially in steel, if they knew what they were doing. If a true sub, they could cruise at 4 knots during the day underwater, and 12-16 knots at night. Could use a snorkel to pull air in while cruising U/W if they wanted. A 200 hp diesel would propel a 60' sub at hull speed (10 knots). An 80' boat would have a hull speed of 12 knots, would burn about 5 gallons an hour at 10-11 knots. Would be a fun project.

 

[Mr.BR]

It would not be that hard to build, especially in steel, if they knew what they were doing. If a true sub, they could cruise at 4 knots during the day underwater, and 12-16 knots at night. Could use a snorkel to pull air in while cruising U/W if they wanted. A 200 hp diesel would propel a 60' sub at hull speed (10 knots). An 80' boat would have a hull speed of 12 knots, would burn about 5 gallons an hour at 10-11 knots. Would be a fun project.

They know their stuff ,they are often limited only by the covert jungle workshops.

 

[ewoaf]

Coasties and their day nods

 

[Forgetful Coyote]

Colombian Navy
Just trying to catch the narcos who won't pay the export bribe---- ahem "tax"

With a commie president in power now.. "all your profits are belong to us"

 

[Carlos Danger]

WTF? I dont know what intrigues me more. The homemade mini sub or the fact that Colombia has a Navy.

Maybe @mikeinfwa can share a few seamen anecdotes from his travels to Colombia. Oh Wait, wrong thread.

Maybe their navy doesn't have inclusion politics and trannys?

 

[Mr.BR]

I imagine them Narcos looking at Ukraine and thinking, we should buy us some of them Chinese drones and balloons , we can ship cocaine express over US border . Drone subs coming next , could make them half the size/cost of maned ones for same cargo

 

[Maciej]

Columbian cartels were actually shopping for one of the Soviet subs parked in Ukraine in the early 90's but ultimately deal did not go trough.

Former mob enforcer and strip club owner Ludwig 'Tarzan' Fainberg, exotic car importer Juan Almeida and Cuban immigrant Nelson 'Tony' Yester ,planned to buy a Soviet submarine for the Cali drug cartel of Colombia for the purposes of trafficking cocaine
Tarzan and Tony even toured a Russian naval base and posed near a submarine with Russian military officers to show the cartel evidence the deal could be done.

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, I HIGHLY recommend watching Operation Odessa, probably one of the best documentaries out there that had me laughing hysterically. I actually ended up in Nelson Yester's hangar in Johannesburg unbeknownst to me the year the documentary came out where he had his Aero L39 and a couple of other planes.

 

[PJC]

Operation Odessa is certainly worth the watch.

Some 2020 news about Yester:

International Fugitive Extradited From Italy Pleads Guilty To Drug Charge

Orlando, Florida – United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Nelson Pablo Yester-Garrido (62, of Cuba) today pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a large amount of high-grade marijuana in the Middle District of Florida. Yester-Garrido faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in...

www.justice.gov

 

[mikeinfwa]

Across the street from Colombian Navy Base in Cartagena

 

[7.62willdo]

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this is right outside NAS Whidbey so I’m guessing this was a fuel tank out one time??