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See, if I were transporting things like
drugs I'd do it in an AUV. That is much less likely to get investigated
by the CG especially if it says "Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
(WHOI) " on the side. And if it ever gets caught on land you can
easily say the payload capacity is for scientific equipment.
Ok it may not be easy to transport tons of
the stuff but chances of being detected are much less ans since it's self guided
you can go from land to land.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:05
AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Yet another
"drug" sub captured.
With the smuggling semisubmersibles they are not real
submarines, they can not dive, they are only very low on the water. The
smugglers use the border efect, there is no real form to detect something that
is in the surface of the water from a long distance. There is a zone
about three meter above the water and tree meters below the water, in
this zone is practical imposible for a detection system to give a clar picture
of what is there. there is no radar or sonar that can produce a clear image of
this zone so everything that goes in this part will be undetectable. Most of
these semisubs are loaded and deloaded at the open sea they do not come on
land so they do not need a harbor. Speed boats do the job of
transporting the "cargo" from land to the semisub and from the semisub to
land.
And submarines are nice machines, what is done with them is not a
problem of the submarine but of the user, a pencil is a writing instrument but
also killing device if used in this way and that is not a problem of the
pencil.
Best wishes
Jürgen
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