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DEA Helps Seize Sub Used To Smuggle Drugs
Federal agents have helped in the seizure of a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine.
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WASHINGTON (July 4, 2010)--The Drug Enforcement Administration says it has helped seize a submarine capable of transporting tons of cocaine.
DEA officials said the diesel electric-powered sub was constructed in a remote jungle and captured near a tributary close to the Ecuador-Colombia border.
Ecuadorean authorities seized the sub before it could make its maiden voyage.
The sophisticated camouflaged vessel measured about nine-feet-high from the deck plates to the ceiling and is nearly 100 feet long.
It has a conning tower, periscope and air-conditioning system.
The DEA says it was built for transoceanic drug trafficking.
One person has been taken into custody.
A DEA official said the sub's nautical and payload capacity is a serious development.
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I believe the answer is called a torpedo!
