Civil Guard police in northwestern Spain this week refloated a homemade semi-submersible vessel — a so-called 'narcosub' they suspect may have been used to transport cocaine.
It was towed to a nearby port where police said they would fully investigate it, but the national government's delegate to the local Galicia region, José Miñones, told reporters that initial checks showed there were no drugs on board.Police said it was too early to say whether the vessel had been used to transport cocaine or where it came from. Earlier this month, the Civil Guardloaded with more than 1,100 kilos of cocaine in waters off of the Canary Islands.
A similar vessel with three metric tons of cocaine on board was found in another northern Spanish estuary in 2019. In 2021, Spanish police seized a homemade narco-semisubmersible able to carry up to two metric tons of cargo while it was being built in Malaga, on southern Spain's Costa del Sol. Similar drug-smuggling crafts have been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, especially off Central and South America. They aren't very common in Europe. The vessels lie low in the water to escape detection and rarely are able to fully submerge., a submarine carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $165 million was seized by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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