Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Police discover extraordinary 100ft submarine used by Colombian drug-runners to smuggle cocaine | Mail Online

[Marc de Piolenc <piolenc@archivale.com>]

I think the point is that this is an order-of-magnitude more difficult 
to detect than the prior generation of semi-submersibles. This makes the 
search area that a single vessel or aircraft can effectively cover 
smaller, which means more resources have to be devoted to the effort in 
order to get the same results as before.

Marc

On 7/5/2010 3:12 AM, MerlinSub@t-online.de wrote:
> For me it looks like two identical halfs of Fiberglas joint together.
> Must be build somewere dry.
>
> I dont understand why it is so difficult to locate this subs.
> A underwater microfon system will detect any dieselmotor
> - a automatic check up with a satelit and / or radarsystem will show if there is a ship or not.
> If a ship is not vissible were the diesel sound comes from..
> ..send the coastguard to the spot.
>
> vbr Carsten
>
>
>
> "Marc de Piolenc"<piolenc@archivale.com>  schrieb:
> > Clearly the plan was to tow it into deeper water, then ballast it
> > properly, which is of course impossible in that shallow tributary.
> >
> > In one of the Daily Mail photos the hull looked like steel, but I know
> > darn well it couldn't be.
> >
> > Marc
> >
> > On 7/4/2010 11:32 PM, Jon Wallace wrote:
> > > Here's a pointer to an article with a number of photos. I can't find any
> > > info regarding the hull material. Is it fiberglass??? The canal in the
> > > photos can't be that deep and the sub looks very buoyant.
> > >
> > > http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/03/submarine-seized-in-ecuador-with-deas-help/
> >
> >
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