DEA seizes Drug-Smuggling Submarine in Columbia

On Saturday, The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reported it seized a submarine capable of transporting multiple tons of narcotics.
The diesel electric-powered submarine was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near the Ecuador-Colombia border, DEA officials said. The camouflaged vessel has a conning tower, periscope and air-conditioning system. It measured about nine-feet-high and stretched nearly 100 feet long. The DEA says it was built for trans-oceanic drug trafficking. Colombia's drug cartels have been known to use home-built submarines to smuggle large amounts of cocaine past U.S. and Colombian patrol boats. Authorities have discovered several of these vessels in recent years.

In August 2007, U.S. forces intercepted a submarine-like vessel packed with several tons of cocaine in Guatemala. And in July 2008, Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast. The DEA is still following the investigation.

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