Silent Smugglin' Service

I've been meaning to write about the submarine that was discovered recently in a warehouse outside of Bogota, Columbia. Not only is this black market sub enormous, the thing was being built to ship cocaine. Evidently the thing could hold 2,000 tons of the stuff.


I'm a submarine freak, so this story really piqued my interest. I especially dig Soviet naval stuff, and was interested to learn that the sub was found with documents in Russian, an indicator that the Russian mafia or technicians were involved. And get this -- apparently two Americans have been accused of collaboration, too.

Of course there are few details about the vessel, which is made of fiberglass. Not that I know much about fiberglass, but I wonder whether it could withstand any serious depths. I also wonder how this thing was meant to be powered -- diesel I'd guess.

Well, I'm just glad somebody's still building subs....