- What's going on everyone
Last month this thing was seized in Panama
with over 5 tons of cocaine inside of it.
So today we are going to be
reviewing footage of homemade
narco submarines that have
been seized over the years
for transporting drugs.
Okay, so a narco submarine
is a fully submersible
or a semi submersible vessel
used to smuggle drugs.
These things are designed
specifically to travel
in open waters and to avoid radar
and other means of detection.
These drug subs are
pretty difficult to find,
unless of course the
government has been tipped off
as to their whereabouts before hand.
Take a look at this footage
of the U.S. Coast Guard
seizing a narco sub
- Got it!
- The dude literally jumps off his boat,
hops on and starts bashing his way inside.
This seizure got 18,000 pounds of cocaine.
That's over 300 million
dollars worth of drugs.
One of the craziest about these to me,
is that these things ar custom made.
I mean you can't exactly
go to a store and ask for
a stealth submarine and not expect the
government to take notice.
- Narco subs are really
crudely built and finished
and their very unpleasant,
but their remarkably good
at doing their job, and
the guys who designed them
are master boat builders, there's a lot of
ingenuity that goes in
it and true engineering.
While their not individually comparable
to something even the Navy would have,
but they're very good at
what they're designed to do.
And so even tho all narco
subs kind of look similar,
certainly to the untrained eye,
there are actually distinct
families that you can say
this narco sub was built
by the same person,
or designed by the same
person who built that one.
And there's probably
10-20 active, if not more
of these master boat builders and they are
genuing their engineers.
- They can cost up to two
million U.S. dollars to build,
and they're used only
one trip just to go from
point A to point B and then abandoned.
- Four guys in there
and there's no toilet,
there's minimal luxury, there's no fridge,
it's gonna be noisy,
smelly, you're gonna stink
of desil and everything
else that's in there.
- When you see the size of them,
you see what they look like,
it must be absolutely terrifying.
When you're in a U.S. Navy submarine,
even if you think well I'm under
the sea this is kinda scary
I think I trust the people
who made the submarine
that it's gonna be okay.
When you're in a narco sub,
how much trust you're gonna
have its not gonna go wrong,
you know, the last minute.
A pretty amazing, terrifying
experience there of
getting in one of these things.
- So the subs are most
commonly used between
North and South America, however last year
there was a failed attempt
to move one of these things
from south America, across
the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
It was seized right
off the coast of Spain.
So there you have it everyone,
some really interesting
footage and information on narco subs.
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