Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Guarding the Coast Gets Harder

Mom and her coastie friends now have to keep an eye out for drug running submarines.
Now U.S. law enforcement officials say that more than a third of the cocaine smuggled into the United States from Colombia travels in submersibles.

An experimental oddity just two years ago, these strange semi-submarines are the cutting edge of drug trafficking today. They ferry hundreds of tons of cocaine for powerful Mexican cartels that are taking over the Pacific Ocean route for most northbound shipments, according to the Colombian navy.
That's not going to make things any easier.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It's going to be tough to hangdrop from the helicopter into one of those subs.