In fact, as of june 2012, maritime drug smuggling accounts for 80 % of the total. Buy drug subs book online at low prices in india drug subs. A narcosubmarine also called drug sub is a type of custommade oceangoing selfpropelled submersible vessel built by drug traffickers to smuggle drugs. Dramatic video shows the coast guard trying to stop a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs into the united states. All topics all writers digital newspaper archive facebook twitter. These purposebuilt vessels are one way colombian cartels smuggle drugs towards the united states. The book, drug subs, written by dr robert spalding is the first factual book in print that. How drug smugglers are using submarines to smuggle. Coast guard officers leap on to suspected drug smuggling. The drug cartels subscalled a quantum leap in technologyare notoriously. Diamonds are forever by ian fleming, runner by carl deuker, goldfinger by ian fleming, to have and have not by ernest hemingw. In fact, as of june 2012, maritime drug smuggling accounts for 80% of the total. Three tonnes of drugs found on vessel off coast of galicia could be. The worldwide invasion by the narco submarine fleet tells the history of submarines and how the black market has embraced them for drug smuggling around the world, and what authorities have started to try to do about it.
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