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Narco-Subs are Getting Ridiculously Advanced…
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ย. 2023
- Dive into the dangerous world of narco-submarines! Explore the secretive underworld of drug smuggling at sea and discover the incredible stories behind these covert vessels. You won't believe what's hidden below!
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One of the most valuable substances by weight in the world are venoms and antivenoms, some of which are tens of thousands of dollars per gram. However, they were recently surpassed by movie theater popcorn and candy.
Surely antimatter. Or subatomic particles.
Ink jet printer ink is pricey sht!!
Horseshoe crab blood is stupid expensive as well...
Technically, anti-matter is $60+ trillion/ gram.
@@kanagawakenji7just don’t put it on the scale made of matter!!
I think they used something called a booze torpedo during Finnish prohibition era. It was shaped like a torpedo and rigged to swim underwater and towed behind a boat. It had a rope with buoy and a bag of salt attached to it.
If smugglers noticed authorities they cut the thing loose and escape. Bag of salt falls to bottom with the bouy. After some time the salt is solved into water and the buoy rises to surface and the thing can be recovered. Simple and effective method from early 1900s.
"20,000 kilos under the sea" .... love it 🤣
nobody will feel sorry to these drug dealers, nor will i do.
@@Mechanized85and nobody gives a f about your opinion
I’m hoping your referencing to the fact of buoyancy and the the weight must be neutral to maintain it’s depth. 😂
Retired uscg, back in 88’ we started seeing subs being dragged behind fishing vessels. We boarded this one vessel, and we did not make them pull up their line that was being dragged off the stern of the ship. Following week, different floating unit, different fishing vessel, similar scenario, they did make them pull up their line and attached to it was a submersible sub full of cocaine.
After that, all fishing equipment had to come out of the water. But that’s when the subs started.
Retired USCG?? How awesome is that!! I bet you've got some true stories to tell!!!
Thanks for Your Service!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦌
I always thought printer ink was the most pricy substance in the world.
Same business model. Get you addicted then jack up the price.
That varies from Printer to printer and how often you are buying ink.
Also is it easier to port your project over to a thumb drive and hit your local Staples/Office Depot/Walgreens vs an online service to print your project.
I know to many people who want back grounds for their 80's toy collection/displays.
I always thought the most expensive substance was Unobtainium. It is widely known that women poccess the world's supply.
Its anti Matter
Printer ink: just say NO.
Possibly the most compelling idea brought up in this video is the idea of there being far more advanced narco-subs out there that we don't know about. Solely due to them being that good at their job.
And there are some folks wanting to carry on their jihad who will pay a fair price for transport.
There's always a bigger fish or in this case... A better submarine.
glad they don't have a grudge against shipping.
It's a common fallacy of overestimating the hidden abilities of the enemy based on extrapolation of their failures . This was used by both sides in the cold war to justify wasteful spending . After the cold war, many such assumptions were proven false . West Europe was not increasing payment to blood donors to stockpile blood for imminent war casualties in a first strike against the USSR . The allies in WW2 didn't have super spies in German high command, just really good code breakers listening to their secure communication . USSR didn't have secret super planes, tanks and subs that could outdo the most expensive products from Grumman, only bragging at parades .
@@dragonkingofthestarswhy would they want to attract attention like that by going after a ship? It would be international news for several days at least with multiple authorities looking for whomever did it!!
Narco subs have been around since forever, it's that we're now catching the more sophisticated types. They range from barely seaworthy and crudly made to underwater yachts that can remain submerged for a day or two. And have picture quality sonar. All it takes to pay for one is one successful run.
To be honest, being put in a cramped 12' by 6' space and living off noodles and water sounds a lot like my life as a student
"20,000 kilos under the sea." LMAO. Nice one Kevin!
*30,000lbs under the sea* sounds better though 😂
Cheeky writing 😅
somebody should write a book with that as the title......
@@kevinwelsh7490 I'd read it
I'm waiting for cocaine sharknado
Oceangates' CEO picked the wrong clientel. He could have had a thriving, very profitalbe and exciting submersible fleet.
how do you think he paid for the deep dive thing? LOL
@@BugzysEvilDeeds He paid with his life, I think
lol
Plot twist, those were his prototype designs. The Titan was actually an inside job to keep him quiet after going famous. 🤫
@@RustysHobbiesRCBro only really went famous after the implosion ☠️
After the collapse of the USSR there were no Soviet subs to track so my grandpa and the rest of those who flew on the P3 were tasked with tracking these narco subs for the coast guard. The submersibles were often times attached to fishing trawlers with radios aswell as surface and air search radars that cost more than the vessel itself. They thought being partially submerged would help but they could easily see the sub and the P3s sensors surely could. They would take pictures of the vessel and give the picture to customs/border patrol or the USCG and they would find the vessel and do the law enforcement side of the operation that the USN wasn’t permitted to do.
Pablo Escobar's older brother, Roberto, wrote a book "The Accountant's Story" which talked of the subs they built by the hundreds, among other shipping methods. This was in the 1980's. Fascinating book, recommended.
Maybe Ocean gate should have contracted drug smugglers to build their sub
Lol!
To soon, 😅
Narcos lose submarines too...
@@scottl.1568and they barely can make ones that do 100m depth. Titanic is at some 12000m
Initially I wanted to laugh at that comment, then I remembered several people lost their lives and the family, & friends didn't get to bury the bodies of their loved ones. Then it wasn't funny to me anymore. 🙁
Of course they are getting more advanced. Engineering and manufacturing tools that were once the domain of top tier companies, are now available to hobbyists. Prices of equipment are coming down, and knowledge once reserved for the initiated at universities and technical colleges is now available to anyone who looks for it. We have hobbyists launching rockets into space, building drones capable of carrying a person. Hell, the technology for small turbine engines, commonly used in military drones, was practically started and first developed by hobbyists. So why wouldn't a bunch of motivated narcos with plenty of cash develop submarines, using technology that has been around since before WW2?
This just in - job ad in Central America, stealth engineer, good benefits, 401k, profit sharing, stock options.
Frankly, with the technical specialties available and experience pool out there, I'm surprised that the first narco subs found were as crappy as they were and that the sophistication of subs didn't grow by exponential leaps and bounds until recently.
Small cheap turbine engines were used for decades in cruise missiles long before they became popular in consumer stuff.
Like the Tomahawk cruise missile developed in the 70s and first used in the early 80s. Long before hobby jets were available.
Will be interesting to see how this plays-out since the technologies for detecting this technology has also been evolving.
Err WW1 had effective ocean going submarines the first use was during the American war of independence.
I personally cannot think of a vehicle more dangerous than a homemade submarine....
Great video!
By trail and error they will start producing quality submarines.
Homemade helicopter might compete
Home made space rocket?
@@delphicdescant home made rocket plane ?
With liquid fuel
Bonus points if useing some of the crazyer fuel and oxidizer combos (foof,cl3O2fl)
If anything I am surprised that their subs are so low tech. There are quite a lot grest engineers from post USSR countries who have great experience in sub design. Approaching them with great paycheck and proposition of designing " recreational easy to use subs for eccentric rich clients" seems like a total no brainer and with amount of money that we are talking about setting up a company with that specific purpose, seems like a reasonable bussines venture. Hell who knows you may even get a lot of legitimate bussines that way
Hauling capacity > Undectability > Top speed > Speed of construction > anything else. If it takes longer to build a more comfortable one, clearly they won't, or forfeit too much storage space for crew quarters. Tech beyond navigation and avoiding detection just produces heat/consumes fuel. If you can improve fuel efficiency even a bit, that leaves more space to store the drugs.
I think allot of people here are missing one big thing, the US coast guard itself says they stop less than 10% of Narco subs, and truth be told it may be less than 1%, they don't even know how many there really are. So it's not surprising the ones we do see caught are crude. What is really interesting is to think of the narco subs out there doing runs that aren't caught..
According to family legend, one of my great grandfather's brothers built a functional submarine in the late 40s. I, along with a friend, was planning out building one in the 40-50' range for cruising around in. Ironically we were employed building subs for the US at the time.
The tech is available to the average person, it just takes being a bit nuts to do it. Fortunately this video has me thinking about it again.
Start with tiny RC sub out of fire extinguisher
ya, i think it's mostly down to technical ability. i don't think most people have the skills or knowledge to be able to build a submarine.
So…if you built such a vessel, could you sell it or would it be your family’s deep dark secret?
@@kathyjacques2688 I'd use it, probably not secretly. I doubt I could or would sell it due to liability, but money talks.
@@jaredkennedy6576 ain't that the truth? If you wanna sell stocks, let me know
We all live in a narco submarine….
Lol !
@@andymouse😁
I fucking love this
😂Song would be less upbeat given the conditions described
Narco Submarine
When you get rid of your cargo a new B-movie theme comes in my mind: Cocaine Shark.😅🦈
It's already happening in real life. As I recall it's off Florida
Fun fact they only use those subs once. But they have so many more creative ways to smuggle it. I got to see first hand when I was doing counter drug ops in the navy when we were at a Colombian naval base. They had a bunch of the subs they captured on display.
I assume it just isn't worth bringing back?
Like was told in the video, their cost is chump change.
There's a big chunk of the video explaining this
I would really like a submarine... not for smuggling, but just for that Jules Verne experience.
Just sign up for a tourist submarine like Ocean Gate’s.
Me too !
@@CarFreeSegnitz hahaha ha nah, I am good, thanks.
@@CarFreeSegnitz I wouldn't mind having an Ocean Gate style sub. But I'd prefer to do shallow dives with it along the coastline or swim around in lakes. There's no need to go to crush depth for the Jules Verne experience.
Preparing to fire up my 3d printer. We're going deep. I'm booking passengers, so just sign the waiver, submit your love donation, and you'll have the time of your life. Literally.
Now, keep in mind, I'm not afraid of the Ocean or water in general... but a Trans-Atlantic trip in one of these things sounds absolutely horrifying.
desperation will get people to do some very extreme things. how many of these crew members are sitting at the bottom of the ocean, never to be found. with family members having zero clue about where they are.
Germany made really capable submarines more than 100 years ago, so this is not rocket science anymore.
Or visiting the titanic
@@juhajuntunen7866 Germany made U-boats with the best of the best engineers, architects, scientist and shipbuilders with no other things in mind than deutsche qualität .
Narco subs on the other hand, are created by questionable ship builders, with limited materials and resources and authorities right after their asses. If anything, these narco subs are either a quick trip to the bottom of the ocean or a quick trip to Jail. And I haven't factored yet the possibilities of silencing the drivers of the boat after a successful delivery for safety purposes of the employer.
Narco subs are the definition of fear, desperation and hopelessness. You got fear either from your employers or from the authorities, desperation from the fact that most people who does this probably has huge debt or just dirt poor to even eat a luxury of 3 times a day, and hopelessness from the fact that it's a one way trip and whatever you do to escape after a successful sale will be considered nothing short of a miracle.
@@scroopynooperz9051 they're probably not sitting, more like floating peacefully. Or planking.
I struggled a little with the pace of the presenter's speech, which was too quick to always absorb everything he was saying. However, if you watch the video on 0.75x speed, it slows him down. It also has the added benefit of making him sound like an English aristocrat who has imbibed far too much sherry and now wants to impart all his knowledge about narco submersibles. I highly recommend 0.75x speed for this marvelous video. 🙂
I don't want to smuggle drugs or even other stuff. I just want one of these real cool boats.
If you took out the drugs you'd have room to make one pretty cozy.
I wonder if - or rather when - we'll see narco-subs transition to drone submersibles. Saves on the crew living space and avoids having to outsource to paid mules who might reveal too much if caught.
The Achille’s Heel of submarines is communication. Submersed subs need extremely long wavelength radio for communication. And the data throughput is agonizingly slow. Remote controlled subs would probably not work. They’d need to be autonomous. Not impossible but way more technical.
Could run it with a surface buoy which would undermine its stealth.
@@CarFreeSegnitzokay good point but what if I pilot the sub with an rc controller from my boat 1km away who you go after first is now a gamble. Go for the sub first you lose the pilot boat who tosses the controller, go for the pilot boat first he sinks the sub remotely soon as he sees you
@@CarFreeSegnitzwhy radio controlled set a meet up point and set an auto pilot with a basic computer and some software could be programed to go to silent running and avoid other boats, get some AI involved and the governments will have a problem as it dosnt even need to be that big anymore a sub the size of a small car not sub shapes maybe a whale shape, will fool other ships sonar, now can Ukraine buy a few 100 slightly used Narco subs fill them with explosives and convert to remote and play chicken with Russian military ships
@@godlugner5327Exactly What I was thinking. The sub rides underneath your boat. When the coast guard comes , you Park it in Deep waters and come back later when the law enforcement is Gone…
@@CarFreeSegnitz Well, the radio control could still travel through air and the sub doesn't have to be fully submersible. Without the need for the crew's living space or a means of getting fresh air, the vessel would be smaller to detect and now the only thing sticking above the water is a tiny antenna (as opposed to a snorkel).
I blame TH-camrs. Cartels learned how to make submarines on Brilliant after seeing one too many sponsored segments.
😂 nice one haha they gotta stop
🤣
So Simon, can you do a video explaining how it is legal to board an unflagged vessel operating in international waters, arrest the crew, seize the vessel and it's cargo and then send the crew to prison in some country they were not in and in many cases, have never even entered? Not a fan of cartels and drug smuggling but also not a fan of officials operating outside the territorial boundaries of their nations and basically in a might equals right sort of fashion.
Classic government overreach
Found the libertarian😂
it's called 'loitering' ...
@@ArtfulDodger566lol yuppp😂
Freedom is an allusion in this life
I served in the Coast Guard from 1976-80. My last 2 years were at a small boat station on the Texas coast. We were poorly trained in interdiction or law enforcement but tried our best. The group commander, a full O-6 Captain stupidly told me that our mere presence on the coast made drug trafficking highly unlikely. As I was leaving the Coast Guard, we found out that smugglers were putting cocaine into their fuel tanks and actually requesting the USCG to tow them into port... contaminated fuel. The Smuggling operations coming into Aransas Pass continued for 10 years unimpeded by anybody. Finally, the processing plant south of Corpus Christi was busted. Cocaine could be distilled from the shrimp boat's "contaminated" fuel and sold. That sort of operation couldn't succeed without the complicity of law enforcement... sorry to say.
Wow, you were at Port Aransas, weren't you?
I can remember the drug business was huge there at that time, and what you say makes a whole lot of sense. I was wondering how so much product was making its way around so easily.
There were two lodge/bar outfits right on the beach. By the looks of the people coming and going out of those places, you could just tell that God-only-knew what all kinds of drug and prostitution activities were going there.
One of those places is still there. Cleaned up a lot since then.
Despite all that, Port A was like a hot, humid, scruffy little slice of beach heaven back then. I was a single young guy and I loved it.
I'm a single old guy now, but that young guy is still in me, and Port A is just too "bouzhie" for me nowdays.
Another good video Simon and crew. Thank you! I have two words on it: 1. Drug trafficking moves so much money that the narcos can buy off the police, judges and prosecuting attorneys as well as politicians right to the very top. 2. Here in the Peruvian jungle the narcos have telecom equipment that is superior to that of the law enforcement agencies, they even have radar jamming equipment. So, here at least, the narcos are always one step ahead of the drug enforcement agencies
Really? Peruvian narcos are very sophisticated then. I've heard about they being heavily armed but that technology is something new to me.
Oh boy that is nothing like own satellite communication system what mexan cartels have
@@TR4Rnew to me as well, but not surprising. Takes more than guns and bodies to keep a multi billion dollar criminal enterprise protected.
@@Versosurma I wouldn't be surprised they could send cube sats for their own pupose
Unfortunately the same methods are not used to shift quality Heroin and thus we are plagued with fuckin Fentanyl. The idiots even mix it into coke and speed now, which isn't for a nice calm comedown, it's just to make them highly more addictive. And unfortunately much more dangerous. Fentanyl has ruined the Drug trade. Even coke heads aren't safe anymore.
Solution ? End thé War on Drugs (traditional ones!) and stop the market for dodgey legal (whilst unclassed) , synthetic copies, like Fentanyl and Flakka or whatever the Fuck it is. Or legalise coke leaves, opium and hash...and mushrooms.
Having a season where Walt and Jesse try to build a smuggling submarine would have made Breaking Bad a lot weirder...
Haha yeah they could have launched from Albuquerque Bay right into the Pacific. Vince Gallagher gets alot of things right but missed this!
@@parthenocarpySA Use your imagination. It could have been used for an operation in Mexico in the Gulf of California.
you would need to have an engineer help build these ships. it’s so weird to think of the fact that someone’s job is to just be a cartel engineer.
it’s probably like a freelance sorta thing but it’s so wild.
With the ever increasing of sophistication regarding drug smuggling, one has to ask oneself, how many cruise ships and container vessels, how many of them are unknowingly carrying a secret package magnetically attached thier huge steel hulls??
I like Simon's "classic one liner" that was "if anyone came sniffing around"
concerning the concealment of HUGE amounts of smuggled Cocaine.
0:03 printer ink
I got all excited about making a submarine. I worked in the garage in secret for a year. Finally it was done and I triumphantly opened the garage door! The neighbors were amazed. As I looked around I realized that I live in the middle of the desert in Arizona. The nearest ocean is six hours away. So I put it on Craigs List and sold it for $2,500 to a guy named Guano Ortega. Haven’t seen it since. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very informative! Thank you for putting this together!
It's only a matter of time before the cartels literally have their own country, army, airforce, and navy. Separate from Mexico. They basically have that now. I bet they even have something resembling an intelligence agency. It's wild what they have going on.
problem with that is they are no longer hidden. It seems unlikely the prospective country would survive international scrutiny. Or even just american for that matter.
Why would they make there own when they can just buy off the whole Mexican government lol why do you think El mayo never seems to be caught
Some have a huge high tech spy network in their home territories. It is said that some are so advanced that they know every passenger that passes through an airport.
Welcome to Cocainelandia, the pool parties are lit af. The bikinis are small and they don’t shut down til 8 in the morning. Sniff sniff wow.
@@animefreak5757 The cartels are already not hidden lol. They regularly open fire on mexican aircraft and control the majority of the Country. The current leadership is for the most part also known
It occurred to me that narco subs would naturally gravitate towards being as big as their operators can effectively handle. The various mechanical components and crew are likely to cost about the same for smaller vessels as for larger ones, at the cost of significantly less space for cargo. Meanwhile the hull which carries said cargo is just steel and fibreglass. The limiting factor would likely be how to transport such supersized vessels from the construction site to whatever waterway their owners wanted to load them and begin the journey from.
A size limiting factor would be the logistics at destination. How fast can you discharge the cargo, given that it has to be done stealthily? Larger cargoes may increase the risk of being caught.
They build thhem in the jungle rivers so they can drive them right out.
@@rod1499 correct. And the specialized engineers are often victims.
@@IndependantMind168 It makes more sense to keep them well paid and happy; knowledge, especially specialized knowledge is as valuable, or more than the cargo.
HOLY SHIT... 2400p/oz??? London is getting JACKED! $1200 CAD is considered expensive where I'm from... time to get to work!
Simon’s area of expertise.
You conveniently forgot to mention that they are rebuilding reefs with all these wrecks. Such environmentalist
AND they're going electric. Definitely environmentalists, lol!
And cocaine is a vegan industry! And Halal friendly
Printer ink is most expensive 😅
Every time I hear reports of some innovation, it’s often brought about by a group of unknowns improvising. We need these guys to build our space programs.
Jesse, we need to cook...
I'll get the RV mister White..
No need, hold my beer..
Well price is greatly varied by region and purity, street level dealer can get an OZ from anywhere from 1300$ to 2600$/oz average purity is roughly 60% in northern Canada atleast. Best deal i ever found was 2200$/oz at 85%, i would go through 6 oz's a month easy, making 5000$ on each oz. kilos get cheaper at approx 35k-45k a kilo. The illicit drug industry is so ridiculously profitable that the "war on drugs" is doomed to fail every time, no matter what. only if the worlds governments find a way to compromise and regulate it in some way will drug related crimes ever at least slow down. It is the war on drugs itself that creates the conditions required for organized crime to flourish, our current methods of "stopping" it literally only makes it stronger.
Making 5k an oz straight profit seems laughably high even after cutting it down to nothing, maybe if u were a master chef, maybe.
mao had some different ideas
@@noahkanenwisher4856
For the drug consumers, not the traffickers. The traffickers were offered a pardon as long as they didn't kill someone or hurt people INITIALLY. After that....they were done for.
5K is conceivable, especially at over 80% purity…I’d be willing to bet getting it at that grade of product, guy above has some ties to Columbia or a plug very close to cartel.
You’d be striking gold to find anywhere close to 50% purity in the U.S…even with the best connection.
I know a guy that would even cut that in half before he’d even sell it to his people. Which would be considered the “plug” to street dealers of sorts.
Most people have no clue what color real coke actually is
@@sunkings5972
He's wrong. The profit is lower.
Thank you for the "deep" dive into the subject (couldn't resist). Some of the engineering is really fascinating. I've also been fascinated in the smuggling vehicles with hidden compartments used on the interstate. Some of these are very inventive.
Like that Titanic submersible...fascinating captain.
I used to work traffic control at a max security prison decades ago and I’m grateful they didn’t have the tech we have, we were just expected to go crawling along with a flashlight, didn’t even have drug dogs
Hell, you used to be able to buy an x-soviet submarine off of E-Bay.. Absolute Fact!!!!!
Snl. The Russian army has lost its lease! Everything must go!
bro how many youtube channels do you need? theyre all just the exact same channel anyways
Gotta diversify that income man
Fun fact: my grandmother told me my family, known for its ultra fast cigarette boats, sold them to both the narcos and government.
Fountain
@@j_rainsgoat3929 Fountain Powerboats, that would be correct.
Andrew Higgins did similar....he also won WW2....
How many fully submersibles have had some mechanical failure and taken their crew to a watery grave? It's not like anyone would admit it.
That kind of business doesn't forgive...
Well, at least they won't be missed. Some narco going to the bottom, who cares?😂
Follow up question,
how much cocaine is sitting in airtight bundles at the bottom of the sea?
And after a while: All the deep sea creatures in that area getting very "switched-ON"
@@beamer.electronics Populations of sealife quadruple as they get at it like rabbits for reasons scientists cannot explain
These narco subs are sick I’d love to have one to take out and dive in lakes around my town I think that’d be cool
The Coast Guard footage is forever awesome
To put this in perspective.....I went to Colombia a few years ago. I asked my tour guy how much an ounce of booger sugar would cost in Cartagena. He very nicely informed me that one ounce of Colombia's finest would run me about $450.
Yes.
Shipping costs are a bitch.
It's all fun and games until they have nuclear weapons
Bringing it in right in front of us. Thumbs up and all...
People applaud the culprits, without knowing a thing...
Remember the US comics 60s & 70s that had adverts for kids to buy a submarine via mail order.
Seems it would be most beneficial to have these subs tethered to larger ships. Have the large ships approach the US shore, with “proper paper work, legitimate shipments”, then as they approach a U.S. port, the sub separates and goes to a rendezvous with the end destination.
I'm sure there's a reason they don't, would have been interesting to have mentioned this in the video.
It was mentioned in the video. Those are the ones that were towed or containers secured to the ship. A legal ship tows one, a few miles from port they cut the line and the sub goes to rendezvous with another legal ship to unload cargo.
Why bother being around a ship that gets attention. 200 milion cargo and they pay 20k to the crew. Why risk anything to .are the crew more comfortable??
@@sparksmcgee6641crews don’t get paid shit, that’s why the ships are registered in some shithole corrupt 5th world nation, so that the greedy naval corporations can get away with paying them 300 usd a month. 20k would be like a promotion to royalty for those poor fellows.
When my neighbor got a new propane tank, he asked my dad if he wanted the old one. It was about 8 feet long and about 3 feet thick. I was just a kid, but I had visions of my dad turning it into a submarine for us boys (he was too big). But, that was not to be. While dad did make a great BBQ cooker and smoker out of it, I was still dreaming of having my own private Nautilus. Ah, to be that young and naïve once again and not a care in the world...except homework!
Some people are building subs from propane tanks. It's possible, even if you should not dive too deep with such a DIY sub for safety reasons
Did somebody forget about Oceangate already?
Dude got super excited 😆 in the beginning
Some guy out there is probably going to be cruising around out there in his home built sub with NO drugs on it, just minding his buisness when he'll get a coast guard guy banging on his hatch yelling at him lol
Interesting video, Narco Subs sounds like a cute band name!
would they play surf music or zydeco?
More like the name for a classy crack who*re.
@@fogcat5I'm imagining a cross between surfing music and folk punk
"20,000 kilos under the sea"
*Nods approvingly *
Nice.
Damn I wish I was a flat fish there's got to be so much f****** cocaine on the bottom of the ocean 😂
I just got so ridicilous idea to drug smugling that works. Even movies hadnt use this idea ever. Aargh.😂😂😂😂 this might be gold mine.🥳
Tf are you even saying
I've been intrigued by them for 20 years. It's hacking culture of building things that intrigues me. Like more engineering goes into those than a lot of things. Way more innovations come from that
Innovations that won't be that useful if you're making a sub for civilians. These are improvised for this specific purpose.
@@zaco-km3su actually, they could be. Also could be a great lesson on why not to do certain things. You can learn multiple things from everything
🎶Under the sea, under the sea
There's so much cocaine for you and me🎶
Oh they had to leave it on board so it wouldn't sink but ended up sinking anyways 😂😂😂 sounds like the guard got a party favor I bet that was one hell of a party
I'm sure the autonomous electric towed subs are never caught. They can return because they have no crew, so it's worth spending the money to make them of higher quality since you get them back.
I'm surprised the narco submarine designers haven't looked at the long steel propane storage tanks as the basis of a narco sub. It's already formed, it's strong, and only needs the hull penetrations for control surfaces, ballast tank vents, electric cables for electric drive motors, periscopes, sonar, etc.
They are built to contain internal pressure and cannot handle any kind of external pressure
Those tanks are designed to hold pressure from the inside. These only need to hold the water out and dive to a depth where they can't be seen. That's just a couple of metres below the surface. If they go too deep they will need a better construction and will be easier to detect by sonar.
There's a thriving DIY submarine builder culture online. Lots on TH-cam and lots of forums. Every few years somone decides to make a propane tank sub. They either get talked out of it or die. Best make your own purpose built hull.
The DIY propane tank hulls work well enough so long as you don’t dive too deep.
Im not sure. It might be cheeper to make them from scratch to be honest. Hobbyist submariners do use large propane tanks as a base but I bet that getting said tanks in large volume is near impossible
If I was a narco chief I’d let the authorities catch some crappy subs so they’d think that was the state of our tech, while getting the super sophisticated ones through. Classic misdirection
There is even better thing. Pretending to fight against drug sales while actively doing it. Who could it be? Politicians!
CIA - would never… cough**
imagine if you got caught with cocaine. sprinkled on sh*t in a portable toilet. On a yatch. lol
these things have been around for a long time.... As a boat crewman, stationed at Base San Juan in Puerto Rico, that's when I saw my first narco sub it was in late 88 or the beginning of 89 so they were beginning to use these subs in the Caribbean in the late 80's Anyone can request info on that if u interested. The Coast Guard raised it out of the harbor and placed it on a trailer platform on the pier it should be documented look it up...there should be pictures and video on that the 7th district in Miami must have that available through the public affairs. office.
you should do a video on the narco-tanks in Mexico,that would be great.
If drug smugglers and prison inmates spent a fraction of their ingenuity on legal pursuits, we could have been colonizing and terraforming Mars by now...
No. It's not the smugglers that are to blame.
@@zaco-km3su Blame? I didn't accuse anyone of anything and didn't assign any blame to anyone. What are you on about, eh?
Full circle, the boredom of living on Mars would likely drive many to drug use..
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Sure. Where's the cash incentive to settle Mars? I mean, it must pay millions right?
Decriminalize drugs and you will remove the incentive for people to invest in or risk their life smuggling.
"Jesse! we are sinking! this thing is poorly designed!"
'We needed to leave some cocaine on board as ballast. and then it sunk' YEAH RIGHTO! they had some fun that weekend
1:55 - Chapter 1 - The basic idea
6:35 - Chapter 2 - The execution
12:45 - Chapter 3 - Halls of fame & shame
When I was in the Navy I never saw a narco sub. That's all I have to contribute to this subject. Carry on.
these subs and crews are heros! making my partys fun again!
A submarine like that, with good operation depth, inertial navigation system and hybrid power generation would be unstoppable. If I thought of that just after watching this vídeo, I'm sure they must already exist.
"homemade submarine"
Yeah i remember oceangate
I often used to watch the smugglers in there fast boats in Gibraltar, they used to smuggle everything back then
The design for diesel electric submarines of the type the Germans were building in ww2 is fairly well known these days... You could probably get hold of blueprints without too much difficulty.
It certainly wouldn't surprise me to find narco subs out there with that level of technology
Damn, even the narcos are going green. They got EV subs now lmao
I'd love to see a video about homemade hobby submarines. They are both insane and amazing.
this video is like a coast guard recruitment ad lol
Would be a nice concept build for an adventurer type just interested in travel.. To build a semi submersible as a living space and transportation device. Would make a nice basis for a motor sailer that used both wind and diesel. Actually better tech possible for efficiency and comfort than racing yachts.
You'd want to avoid ballast and replace it with fuel, and cargo like your personal posessions.
I wonder how long until this is realized? Theres likely a market for such.
Interesting. A towed all-electric sub could actually keep the batteries topped off and generate its own oxygen using regenerative electric motors. If the towing vessel is large powerful enough and the the submarine's propellers large enough, the water flow can turn the propellers to generate electricity. A discrete detachable cable can allow for communicationsbetween the towing vessel and the submarine.
If there would be cable for communication, why not for power? I was rather thinking about a "hybrid". Diesel generator, some batteries and electrically driven propellers and you can travel long distances on your own and when spotting some danger, you can go down and move somewhere else under water. I think that this is how, at least some, big submarines work
Well, with the amount of money involved I’m totally surprised that they just did not get their hands on an old diesel/electric Soviet era subs. Pretty quiet, most likely available, and plenty of crew available at discount prices….
North Korea is probably helping out cartels with transport using their subs. It's a guess, but since NK is already well known for their "fundraising" activities, it wouldn't be surprising that they would be doing so already.
The home brewed “subs”, along with their load, and operators are expendable. Hey if they make it then great. But they are always figured to take that loss. The big boys now have stealth diesel electric underwater marine craft and the real heavy hitters are using submersible drones outfitted with several recovery systems and set to sail along a predetermined route and ping off of preset prelocated markers at set times using different signal types at various stages and depths of the route. They load at sea and unload at sea. All the obvious practices have long been worked around when it was decided that technology and unlimited funding could usually achieve what bold men could rarely accomplish
Lutetium is generally considered the most expensive element you can actually purchase. The transuraniums are billions of $ per ounce. Even Plutonium is $4000/gram.
After 70 years of nuclear submarines existing there’s no way the US doesn’t have the world’s most sophisticated sonar sensor net to detect subs approaching its coast. So I think a fully submersible narco sub takes a big risk - you want to play dodge the Coastguard patrol on the surface or go full Red October and dodge the Los Angeles class fast attack submarine?
Unless they’re preoccupied with the black sea…
It’s easy if it’s a big military ship but if it’s a sub built for stealth not battle/humans it’s a lot harder to find trace ways to detect them
Tell me the "drug war" isn't working without telling me the "drug war" isn't working. Lol
Tell us you don't understand the scale of drug wars without telling us you don't understand the scale of drug wars.
@elitecol69 tell us the Americans have sold out their own people to drugs for decades just like other countries have centuries ago...without telling us.
@@adamfrbs9259I just did, without telling you.
@@elitecol69 Spending has ballooned to near 100x, addiction rates and consumption of illicit substances has remained steady. Nothing has changed, and with how much money is in the drug trade, it's basically impossible to stop. Hell, 650 Billion seems small, the MDMA/XTC production just in the Netherlands is already worth nearly 20 billion, which is why there's labs found so dang often.
I woud say that the moast expensiv thing is printer ink with over 9000 euro per Liter
Imagine how many must have sunk! You'll never hear about them.
I wouldn’t doubt that the cartels have bought one or two old Russian subs.
You mean Soviet? No. They might have hired some Russian engineers though.
Wow there's definitely a market for like a little fish robot that can autonomously swim its way to a point and has room in its belly for like a kg of anything you wanted
It's just a dolphin. Nothing to see here🐬🙈
Say my name?
Flipper
You’re damn right!
Right!? That's a GREAT idea. I expect to see it on Shark Tank😂
The prebuilt materials for small submersibles exist in quantity, and often at an Amazon price. State that you can't find a spiffy toilet, a solid small diesel, an atmosphere filter, a 12 volt freezer, or a premade hatch, and many people can show you that you're a crummy purchasing agent. Radar profiles are trashed by insulated snorkels. Drugs aren't the biggest profit in the undersea.
I would say maybe an ounce of weapons-grade plutonium? You would think that would be really hard to get a hold of so that's probably very expensive. Also not sure if it'd be as much but there's like depleted uranium bullets I don't know how much that's worth
Thye actually transport more fentanyl in the subs these days. And having close ties with China being where the fentanyl comes from has helped with the development of subs. You won't find an article on it, but a "narco-sub" outran the coast guard and was never seen again last year.
No, they don't. Fentanyl can be made domestically. Why bother?
China isn't supplying fentanyl directly, they are supplying the precursor chemicals. The actual manufacturing is taking place in Mexico and other countries in the Americas.
That’s kind of like saying McDonald’s isn’t supplying shit, but instead feeding me the precursors… While true, it doesn’t preclude China from being responsible.
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No, China is not responsible. Nice try. The US is. This is NOT China's problem, it the US' problem.
@@itskarl79 I never implied that China wasn't (indirectly) responsible. Stop putting words in my mouth. I was just correcting your false statement that China was directly supplying fentanyl to Mexican cartels.