Via the BBC: Farc’s drug submarine seized in Colombia
The 16m-long (52ft) vessel – equipped with a sophisticated navigation system – was captured near the Pacific port city of Buenaventura.
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The vessel would have been able to travel as far as Central America.
From the photo (see it via the link), the craft looks like a semi-submersible (i.e, the craft is not designed to operate wholly under water).
This is the first time that I recall one of these craft being explicitly linked to the FARC:
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