With the help of United States officials, officials of Ecuador seized a fully functional submarine that was built for the purpose of transporting large amounts of cocaine. "'This is the first seizure of a clandestinely constructed fully operational submarine built to facilitate trans-oceanic drug trafficking,' the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement."
The submarine is about 100 feet long, 10 feet high, has a periscope and is contains an air-conditioning system. Due to the nature of a submarine, and how it was built in a remote part of a jungle, it seems that future iterations of such a submarine would impose many difficulties for authorities when trying to combat the war on drugs.
Drug-smuggling submarine seized near Columbian border
The submarine is about 100 feet long, 10 feet high, has a periscope and is contains an air-conditioning system. Due to the nature of a submarine, and how it was built in a remote part of a jungle, it seems that future iterations of such a submarine would impose many difficulties for authorities when trying to combat the war on drugs.
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