As other members of the Coast Guard train their guns on the hatch, it opens and hands appear, raised in surrender. Also surrendered is the cargo — more than 17,000lb of cocaine worth a staggering £180 million in large waterproof plastic-wrapped bales.
As for the form of transport, this will be yet another addition to the growing fleet of ‘narco- submarines’ confiscated by law enforcement and anti-drug authorities worldwide.
Arguably the most ingeniously effective tool yet developed by international drug traffickers, these specially designed and secretly built subs — to be accurate most of them are semi-submersibles as a few feet of their hulls remain above the water — cost at least $1 million to build.
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