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11-20-2006, 09:22 AM #1
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Coke Sub Found Off Costa Rica
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (Reuters) - U.S. Coast Guards have seized a submarine carrying 3.5 tons of cocaine in the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica and arrested three Colombians on board, the Costa Rican Coast Guard said on Sunday.
The submarine appeared to be a makeshift vessel unlike military submarines or those used by oceanographers. It could only submerge 6 feet under water, Costa Rican Coast Guard spokesman Jose Antonio Fallas told Reuters.
The 45-foot-long vessel was found last Wednesday near the remote Coco Island, southwest of the Central American mainland, and had traveled hundreds of miles from Colombia on its way to the United States.
It was taken to the Costa Rican port of Puntarenas where it arrived during the weekend. The Colombians were taken to the United States to be prosecuted, Fallas said.
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The U.S. Coast Guard frequently patrols for drug shipments off Costa Rica but the latest seizure was believed to be the first time a submarine has been caught there.
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11-20-2006, 10:40 AM #2
This does not surprise me. When Escobar was head of the cocaine cartel in Columbia, he tried buying a real sub from the Russians after the fall of communism. There has been lots of talk about it but it is scary to think it is really happening.
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11-20-2006, 07:01 PM #3
This just takes the cake don't it! Whats next?
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11-20-2006, 07:27 PM #4
What's next scares me. Maybe it would be unmanned rockets.
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