A suspected “narco-sub” broke up while being towed by a fishing boat off the coast of Spain

Doubtful “narco-sub” A fishing boat capable of smuggling drugs was split in two this week while being taken to a port in northwestern Spain, police said.

The fishing boat “Maria Cristina” spotted the “semi-submerged” vessel at the entrance of the Camarinas-Muxia estuary in the Galicia region on Wednesday and proceeded to tow it to the port of Camarinas after notifying the police, the Civil Guard said. statement.

During the operation, “the suspected drug submarine was broken into two parts: the bow, which remained in the water, and the stern, which sank due to its greater weight,” the report added.

Police divers were searching for wreckage for analysis. It has not been determined whether there are any drugs inside.

Civil Guard police in northwest Spain in 2023 “narkosub” relaunched they suspected that it was used to transport cocaine. A video was shown divers inspect the ship and measuring it underwater, and another video shows officers maneuvering a tugboat with a crane as the submarine’s nose gets stuck.

In 2019, Spanish police seized a semi-submersible off the coast of Galicia believed to have come from South America, carrying more than 6,600 pounds of cocaine.

Especially from drug dealers Colombiawere caught using submarines to transport cocaine to Mexico and from there to the United States. In 2023, A “narco sub” with two bodies and nearly three tons of cocaine were seized on a ship off the coast of Colombia.

In November, the Mexican Navy announced its capture 8,000 pounds of cocaine On a “drug submarine” spotted about 153 miles off the Pacific coast earlier this week Acapulco resort.

Two months earlier, the U.S. Coast Guard said it had shipped $54 million worth of cocaine, including more than 1,200 pounds of the drug seized from a “narcotic substance.”

Most ships are only semi-submersible — a partially submerged ship cannot fully submerge like a submarine — but some can go completely underwater.

Galicia has long been a point of entry for drugs into Europe. A maze of bays, caves and sinkholes line its rugged coastline, making it a smuggler’s paradise.

last week, This was reported by the Spanish police they arrested 7 people while unloading 1100 kilos of drugs from a high-speed boat in Vilanova de Arousa.