Narco subs appear in Pacific amid warnings cartels are ramping up trafficking to Australia

They’re stealthy, semi-submersible and can sneak narcotics across oceans in bulk. And recently, suspected ‘narco subs’ have started…
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They should make a movie about Narcosub mariners

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/30/men-in-wet-clothes-claiming-to-be-camino-pilgrims-arrested-over-alleged-narco-sub-plot

#NarcoSubs #Spain #Drugs #Crime

Inside the Dangerous World of Narco-Subs Smuggling Cocaine Across Oceans

Narco-subs, semi-submersible vessels used to transport massive quantities of cocaine from South America to Europe, have become a significant part of the global drug trade. These homemade vessels, often described as 'propeller-driven coffins,' make treacherous transatlantic journeys, with crews riski... [More info]

@AnarchistFederation unless they have #Narcosubs and/or bleeding-edge firepower they'll get intercepted and arrested or worse...

• This was the case with every single attempt - why should it be different this time?

@stephie_hamburg @katzenberger granted, driving with a recreational yacht into a sea blockade has never succeeded and said actions have done diddly-piss to alleviate the situation.

• I mean, it would've been totally feasible to send some "narco" torpedoes onto the beach of Gaza packed with aid, but we all know this ain't as photogenous...

This doesn't take much science and would've been trivial to do, abeit expensive in a feasible quantity.

• Needless to say #Hamas leadership does travel in and out with #Narcosubs.

@heartshadows @JamesBaker

[…] but cash don't allow you to send million in the other side of the world without being able to follow, and cash is not anonymous, as it relatively easy to track […]

I have bad news for you: Those services do exist and either way one would have to provide plausibility of the source of funds.

There are #Narcosubs filled with millions of #cash to pay for the millions in #coke they offloaded in the #EU.

• Even if one could pay rent, utilities, fees, fines, taxes and expenses with #Monero that wouldn't mean that one didn't have to follow #bookkeeping and other regulations.

Just like if I were to try to buy a condo I'd be asked "How did you finance it?"…

@touaregtweet Obviously "Pretending to be noble by doing some random shit!" doesn't help anyone in #Gaza...

• Those who want to get in and out use #Narcosubs, cuz once they reached #Europe from their "one-way-trip" they are sold for scrap to anyone willing to collect them at rock bottom pricing.

@landley I can tell you how:

#Narcosubs!

@sweetmercury exactly that.

I would love to DIY a sub but since I don't do #Narcosubs that would mean getting it certified as seaworthy...

Even tho I'd only plan to go to maximum of 40m and would design it with 50m in mind and 100m crushing depth as destructive testing point, that's still 11:1 pressure ratio and a shitload of safety tests and equipment that would have demonstratively function if not autonomously without crew interactions.

Also it's providing one with far less risk should 1-2 shipments get interdicted.

And yes, traffickers will sacrifice up to 10% as tips to keep cops satisfied...

That's why they never stopped making non-FSV's:
They're decoys for the piracy the USCG does, so they don't try to go after real #Narcosubs...

So it's more economic to sent 20 #narcosubs at 4t freight & 4-5 crew each than a single sub that requires 78 highly trained sailors and officers...

https://youtu.be/BR18qhnGEpM?t=567

👇🇧🇷🇪🇺"Cocaine-smuggling submarine reveals Europe's drug crisis" #Brazil #Cocaine #EuropeanUnion #NarcoSubs #DrugSmuggling
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65337215