The US Coast Guard team has captured yet another makeshift marine, this time 300 miles off the coast of Panama. Spotted from the air by a Customs and Border Protection plane, the self-propelled semi-submersible was reeled in by a crew off the coast of California.

It is estimated that the cocaine seized had a value of around $203 million. Damn, Daniel.

The crew shot the whole saga and even did a little dive to show what the semi-sub looks like under the water.

Blow amounting to just under 6 000kg was discovered, along with a loaded gun in the cockpit. That’s just a ton less than the first mother lode discovered last year August.

Believed to be bound for Mexico along a smuggling route which has already seen authorities intercept submarines, the semi-submersibles used by smugglers can be extremely unseaworthy. Consisting of a half submerged hull, cockpit and exhaust pipe barely breaking the surface of the water, the secretive narcotics sub was flooded, sinking to the bottom of the ocean following the major drugs seizure.

[source: rt]