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2008-01-04 Caribbean-Latin America

Cocaine-laden submarine sinks off Colombia

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 so... what happens to shark and whale activities when they get coked up by one of these subs?

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-04 00:05|| 2008-01-04 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Are these some sort of WWII submarines that travel on the surface all the time? Why do they keep getting nabbed?

Posted by gromky 2008-01-04 00:14|| 2008-01-04 00:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Anuther one???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-01-04 00:45|| 2008-01-04 00:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Do these scum really really need to be rescued, or are they left to swim back to shore?

Posted by gorb 2008-01-04 02:49|| 2008-01-04 02:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Two words: depth charges.

Posted by Mike 2008-01-04 06:16|| 2008-01-04 06:16|| Front Page Top

#6 I understand they are engine-less, towed by boats, simple solution, sink the towboat, leave, let them drown, or starve, can't eat coke, (But they maybe can die happy)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-04 07:44|| 2008-01-04 07:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I understand they are engine-less, towed by boats, simple solution, sink the towboat, leave, let them drown, or starve, can't eat coke, (But they maybe can die happy)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-04 07:44|| 2008-01-04 07:44|| Front Page Top

#8 To answer the odd, uninformed comments/questions:

Cocaine Submarine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/915059.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/23/wsub123.xml

Posted by logi_cal 2008-01-04 08:32|| 2008-01-04 08:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Hey, they were shipping poison to the USA. Sink em all.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-01-04 09:59|| 2008-01-04 09:59|| Front Page Top

#10 Colombian Broken Arrow

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-01-04 10:12|| 2008-01-04 10:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Stand by to blow ballast!

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-04 19:00|| 2008-01-04 19:00|| Front Page Top

#12 I just had a second think, suppose the idea is to "Sink" them, and then a timer set for(Say) 24 hours blows the ballast tanks and it pops right up again?

I understand Cocaine is NOT soluble in water, so why not?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-04 21:09|| 2008-01-04 21:09|| Front Page Top

#13 Actually, powder cocaine (cocaine HCL) is quite soluble in water. The free base version (crack) is not.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-04 23:24|| 2008-01-04 23:24|| Front Page Top

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