MAD SCIENCE! I JUST CRAPPED MY PANTS! CHECK THIS SHIT OUT!

[Doktor Howl]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-ecuador-narco-sub-20100706,0,162212.story

Ecuador police seize 100-foot narco-submarine being built secretly
The vessel is capable of carrying six people and 10 tons of cocaine on underwater voyages lasting up to 10 days, authorities say. Its discovery is a 'game changer' for U.S. drug interdiction efforts.

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia — Police in Ecuador seized a 100-foot submarine being built by suspected drug traffickers capable of carrying a crew of six and 10 tons of cocaine on underwater voyages lasting up to 10 days — a "game changer" for U.S. anti-drug and border security efforts, officials said Monday.

A raid Friday by 120 police officers and soldiers netted the fiberglass sub as it was nearing completion in a clandestine "industrial complex" hidden in mangrove swamps near San Lorenzo, a town just south of the Colombian border.

The craft was outfitted with a conning tower, a periscope, air conditioning and "scrubbers" to purify the air, and bunks for a maximum crew of six. But what set the craft apart from semi-submersible craft that drug traffickers have used for years was a complex ballast system that would have enabled it to dive as deep as 65 feet before surfacing.

more hilarity at link.

Yessir, that's a bunch of bad guys with a SECRET SUBMARINE MANUFACTURING BASE IN THE JUNGLE.

Hot damn!  It's 80 years overdue, but all my favorite pulp-genre themes are starting to come true!



Dok,
Is so fucking happy, he could plotz!

[AFK]

Now they just need a better plot.  Smuggling cocaine is so 1980s.  Couldn't they conspire to kidnap the commissioner's daughter or threaten to turn everyone into (more) lifeless automotons, or smuggle in some kind of huge-tastic death ray. 

[Doktor Howl]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Doktor Howl]

Now they just need a better plot.  Smuggling cocaine is so 1980s.  Couldn't they conspire to kidnap the commissioner's daughter or threaten to turn everyone into (more) lifeless automotons, or smuggle in some kind of huge-tastic death ray. 

All in good time, my good man, all in good time.  It's good to see that the Mad Science community is finally doing something.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

 



COCAINE- A DRUG THAT MAKES YOU AN ASSHOLE SMUGGLED BY MEN WHO SMELL LIKE YOUR ASSHOLE!

Submarines are ikky like that.

[Richter]

Gentlemen, we are in business! 

[Doktor Howl]

Gentlemen, we are in business! 

I'm just so happy that I lived to see this day! 

[the last yatto]

they already caught one or two, this is just the first time they got it before it launched

[Doktor Howl]

they already caught one or two, this is just the first time they got it before it launched

Those were semi-submersibles.  This was a true submarine.

And it was BUILT AT A SECRET BASE!  IN THE JUNGLE!

[Elder Iptuous]

hot shit!

that's big, too, for a homegrown sub, i would think....

i would assume they had decent sub engineers on their staff to pull that off.

i wonder if there was plans to arm it?

[Cain]

I'm assuming this is the FARC rebels, because mostly the FARC rebels are one of the biggest insurgent organizations in current existence, and because they've built subs before.

On March 10, 2006, the Colombian navy seized a 57 ft long fiberglass cocaine sub, and caught another in 2007.  I believe the first attempt to make one went down in 2005, but the facility got raided before they could use it.

[Adios]

We should hire them to run our Intelligence Agencies.

[BadBeast]

We should hire them to run our Intelligence Agencies.

Your intelligence Agencies probably already had a hand in it.

[Jasper]

We should hire them to run our Intelligence Agencies.

If we're going to have an Intelligence Agency, I think first we'll be needing a Hubris Agency, or perhaps an Acrimony Agency.

[Jenne]

That's fucking awesomesauce, really.