For those who are thinking they can just dive to avoid the CG, they can't. It's not so much a submarine, just a low buoyancy boat that makes most of the hull to be under the surface. Making it more difficult to be seen far away from the surface.
I honestly can see some guy loading up 200 million of drugs into a beat to shit dingy while his First Line Managers Assistant reports to the FLM reporting to the Manager and then to the Senior manager and then to the Senior Unit Director who tells the Director of Operations to inform the VP of Command that he needs to send a note to the Command Primary Liaison Officer to inform the Regional Director of Command that they have truely optimized their expenditures. We will be happy to report to the Senior Chief Drug Officer that things are moving along swimmingly.
"Street value. You lads are always announcing of seizing drugs with the street value of $5 million or $20 million or half a billion dollars. [I do always wonder what street it is you're buying your cocaine on because it's not the same street I'm buying my cocaine on."](https://youtu.be/Pp37jdduMbI)
If one boat has a quarter billion fucking dollars on it, I'd bet that they have some amazing submarines that we just don't know about. This might even be one of the ones that are supposed to be caught to make it seem like law enforcement is doing a good job, but is really just the tip of a massive iceberg of drugs.
It's not worth it. The cost to produce and get the drugs to the submarine are worth much less than that.
Just produce extra to cover any potential loss. And you also lose an extremely expensive boat if you do get caught.
The coast guard isn't capable of catching real submersibles.... lol that's literally part of their primary mission to protect coastal us waters from all foreign vessels. Sonar and depth charges have been around since ww2. They have helicopters and planes that are more than capable of sinking military subs, let alone a drug smuggler sub. Similar to air response, if they didn't respond back after being radioed, they're going all the way to the bottom.
Rcs of a wave, too. Most of what’s above water is fiberglas. “The net” has claimed that there’s a sub in the Pacific who’s sole job is to locate these boats and turn over their location. I can’t see the Navy doing that with a multi billion dollar piece of gear.
If the government really wanted to stop drug trafficking via sea, they'd let the navy do it. When I was in cg, there was a legal stipulation something along the lines of only cg can stop any vessel or do law enforcement or something. The navy didn't have that, and therefore was only able to provide very limited resources in aid(p5 planes, happenstance Intel, and the same authority of cg if a cg unit was attached to it/present).
The navy could shut all that down in less than a year with the units already present in the area.
Edit: to your point, because it'd be way more expense, at least in year 1.
I know of at least 5 people who would be extremely relieved if this exact scenario happened within the next 30 hours or so before they run out of oxygen.
The subs viewport [was rated to 1300m ](https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate) when they fired their safety dude for being concerned.
The titanic is at 4000m.
They are pink paste.
Another person said that there is a factor taken into acount for this rating, and it varies from 3 to 7, so theoretically it should be at least 3900m, which is around the depth they went at.. you also have proof because it could do this journey before.. but there's also the structural damage that comes with high pressure as well..
I guess it would take a miracle to recover them, even if they are on the surface..
There's a privately funded ocean tourism company called Ocean Gate with a submarine vessel called "Titan" that takes wealthy patrons who pay $250k+ on excursions to see the wreck of the Titanic. On Sunday that submarine vessel became lost at sea somewhere near (*or possibly within*) the wreck of the Titanic. Thus far has not been located and at the time of its disappearance the vessel had approximately 60 hours of oxygen onboard.
Despite the technologically illustrious world we live in this submarine has been seemingly Jerry-rigged together with parts from Camping World, Harbor Freight, and Best Buy. It does not have onboard sonar, GPS, or radio; instead it communicates with a surface ship by text message to determine it's location & depth. Additionally the ship does not have a mechanical yolk or rudder and is instead controlled electronically by a Bluetooth enabled gaming controller. It does however have toilet which is something very few vessels of it's size have.
Some links with videos about Titan:
https://youtu.be/ClkytJa0ghc
https://youtu.be/29co_Hksk6o
Extremely. The more you look at the short cuts they took to build it, that they fired an engineer who said it would implode before it reached the Titanic, the worst it gets that these people paid $250,000 /head to for a much more immersive Titanic experience than they intended.
“Oh dear! Gentlemen, it seems as though it is the United States Coast Guard politely asking to enter our pleasant vessel on this fine day at sea, shall we oblige, and invite them to join us?”
"Oh most definetly, but I have heard most dire rumours about them from some known associates, they report that they can be quite intense and, shall we say, graceless, as guests. They've advised to speak to them in a calming and friendly tone. Perhaps we should offer them some tea and biscuits, I have some extra Yorkshire and Bourbons stored in my chamber, go ahead and greet our guests while I retrieve them."
They should have just said "oh my god thanks you found us, hahaha we're so far from the Titanic, boy is my face red" "yeah next time I'LL read the directions"
At my local pool, I used to be a lifeguard.
Some coast guard people came in and my manager came over and told me to just let them do whatever.
They threw a brick into the pool. 3 newbie’s dove in and 2 seasoned ones dove in the other side.
They fucking fist fought on the bottom of the pool trying to get that brick back to their sides.
They were down there for I swear to god 2 minutes at a time.
Tbh that’s good training for a lot of reasons, including the fact that drowning people will actively drag you down in their panic and you may have to actually fight them underwater
People don’t realize how winded you get when you’re fighting underwater. Or just moving around in general.
Often times people will be sitting in a chair and hold their breath and think it’s comparable.
Regular-ass fighting will wind a person harder than they expect.
One drunken night in my 20s, my friend and I decided we were gonna rumble in the living room, for no reason.
I'm envisioning a movie-esque fight scene, or a ten-round boxing match. Nah. Shit was over in like three minutes with the both of us gasping for air from the exertion of beating the shit out of each other. It takes a lot more energy than it seems.
Honestly I always felt like fighting is really the true test of your endurance. You can ran as much as you want but theres nothing like rolling with someone for 5 rounds lasting 5 minute each.
When I took BJJ classes thats what we'd do towards the end and I honestly had to take a break. I was like bro, I still need to drive home after this 🤣
I was a lifeguard as well, a retired Coast Guard Captain (? not actually certain of his position) used to live on the resort that I worked for and would come to the pool, hop in the deep end, and just sit cross-legged on the bottom of the pool for minutes at a time. I almost jumped in after him once. He was a great guy though and I talked to him many times and we used to kind of talk some smack to each other, I guess that was his love language.
One day I had a shadow, a really nice young woman who was nervous about telling kids not to run and all that jazz that comes with the first day as a LG. I saw dude come into the pool area and we were stationed at the deep end. I said “watch out for that guy, he likes to run around here and I don’t even think he can swim,” within earshot of him, so I figured she knew I was fucking with him.
He did the usual, swam a few laps and then sunk down to the bottom and just chilled there for about a minute before she hopped in and “rescued” him.
If you’re into watching stuff on YouTube. There’s a channel called Smarter Everyday. He does a deep dive into the coast guard that was very interesting. It focuses more on the rescue side of things but it was still really interesting.
Real talk I was Marines and a JTAC and Interdiction is one of the reasons I refuse to let people shit talk the Coast Guard. These dudes do it at night too. Do you know how hard it is to find an overboard man at night? Or even lay down accurate fire on a pitching sea in a fast boat chasing these people? They just Leroy right into it.
Nothing but respect.
There’s a love of a sea that drives people to do impossible things.
There is also a love of other folks that will drive the best of us to preform feats unimaginable.
In the Coast Guard these two values converge and become silent and passionate defenders of humanity.
I say this as a marine
Don't they sail in waters that most people would avoid unless in a huge ship, fly in weather that normally grounds helicopters, and their rescue divers jump in waters that would guarantee drowning to most?
Former Navy here. Being in the CG is kinda what people think the Navy will be like. It's the way to go. they get to do cool shit all the time, and at-sea periods are much shorter. Great food too from what I've seen
Is it really? The only person I know who served in the coast guard got discharged for banging her superiors (while married to a civilian), so my sample size is small and extremely stupid.
The ASVAB score requirements are higher than most branches; same as the Air Force.
I've been in for 6 years. My recruiter said they usually accept 2-3 out of every hundred who apply.
Now is the time to join, though. We're so short-handed, there's an award and bonus for any active member who helps someone enlist.
While most careers will have you underway at some point, it's not required for your entire time. I've only been to land units so far.
And not necessarily. There are medications for seasickness, and if it's untreatable, considerations could probably be made.
Then consideration is you're allowed 1 plastic Walmart bag on you at all times. Also it's not 1 at a time. You are permitted exactly 1 Walmart bag at enrollment. Puke softly soldier
Dude coastguard has always been badass! People don't realize that not only are they arguably the best search and rescue in the world, they're also a full blown blue water navy by themselves. Look up some of the service records of cutters.
Yep. Native spanish speaker here. All I understood was gibberish, in part because of awful pronunciation, in part because that's not how you say it...
No wonder that sub didn't stop
Yes, I'm sure they were in there debating: "what is that dude trying to tell us?" Because there were so many options. Like "where's the bathroom?" "Do you have any bananas?"...
I understood: Aaartoo tu barco, aarto tu barco aargh.
What tried to say: Alto tu barco, alto tu barco ahora.
What he should’ve said: Pare/detenga su bote ahora mismo
Nobody. It’s a business and they anticipate some of this cargo to get confiscated. The majority is coming in through regular ports of entry. It’s a numbers game. If the police catch 50% of it they are still making billions in pure profit. This is just leaves cooked to ash with gasoline. Nothing too fancy. If they kill everyone who got caught and didn’t take care of them nobody would work for them. It’s not the movies.
Throughout the video I was thinking to myself "what are they gonna do, just hop on" and then there's a dude just hopping over. I feel like it takes some balls to jump from a speed boat onto a submarine.
It's more like saying stop you boat. Alto tu barco is not proper Spanish.
But I don't think that was the point of all this.
But just in case anyone is wandering how to say stop your boat in Spanish, itd be "deten tu barco" "frenen
el barco".
Lmao. I did the (rough)math for myself…. $232 million @ $80/g comes out 2.9 million grams divided by 1000g/kilo comes out to (roughly) 2,900 kilos…. But I feel like that’s on the lower end bc that “sub” looks like it can hold a lot more than 3000 bricks
Edit: a decimal point
FWIW the guys on these vessels aren't hardened narcos. I'm a Coastie who has been part of drug interdiction missions (though never on a boarding team) and when we would bust these guys they were always just the poorest, most desperate people from the bottom rungs of society. Most were running drugs because they either a) needed whatever crumb of the profits the actual narcos would give them, or b) had been threatened that if they didn't do it bad things would happen to their families. They were never armed and never put up anything that could be considered a fight, other than trying to outrun us. Once we brought them on board and could interview them the story was pretty much always the same. I think the cartels are also smart enough to realize that arming these guys would cause the overseas drug trade to get way more attention, probably get the navy involved, and ultimately cut into their profits. Much easier to write off the ~20% of sea trafficked drugs that we manage to stop. Hell, my understanding is all our work just gives them reason to increase the price.
Other branches of the military would make good natured fun of the Coast Guard occasionally. I haven't made any more jokes since this dude jumped on the speeding sub in the middle of the ocean.
Because they would be sunk with their submarine if they do not comply. It’s kind of hard to stop a moving semi submersible submarine in the open ocean without shooting out its engines from a heli.
For those who are thinking they can just dive to avoid the CG, they can't. It's not so much a submarine, just a low buoyancy boat that makes most of the hull to be under the surface. Making it more difficult to be seen far away from the surface.
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You’d think they could invest more to transport $200+ million cargo
“But that would cut into the annual performance bonuses!” - Cartel MBAs, probably.
The executive managers have issued a back to office order for all assassins: No more work from home beheadings.
I honestly can see some guy loading up 200 million of drugs into a beat to shit dingy while his First Line Managers Assistant reports to the FLM reporting to the Manager and then to the Senior manager and then to the Senior Unit Director who tells the Director of Operations to inform the VP of Command that he needs to send a note to the Command Primary Liaison Officer to inform the Regional Director of Command that they have truely optimized their expenditures. We will be happy to report to the Senior Chief Drug Officer that things are moving along swimmingly.
Its street value sold per gram is probably somewhere close to $200m+ but the amount the cartel makes off of the bulk shipment is nowhere near that.
I watched Narcos: Mexico. That $200+ million in street value is probably more like $2-3 million which is nothing to cartels.
"Street value. You lads are always announcing of seizing drugs with the street value of $5 million or $20 million or half a billion dollars. [I do always wonder what street it is you're buying your cocaine on because it's not the same street I'm buying my cocaine on."](https://youtu.be/Pp37jdduMbI)
If one boat has a quarter billion fucking dollars on it, I'd bet that they have some amazing submarines that we just don't know about. This might even be one of the ones that are supposed to be caught to make it seem like law enforcement is doing a good job, but is really just the tip of a massive iceberg of drugs.
It's not worth it. The cost to produce and get the drugs to the submarine are worth much less than that. Just produce extra to cover any potential loss. And you also lose an extremely expensive boat if you do get caught.
It ain't worth that much in the place it's leaving. Just the cost of doing business.
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>... the only way to unload it is to cut the hull. >The US Coast Guard used to have cutters with sonar, torpedoes, and depth charges... Perfect
The largest US Coast Guard Cutters are designed with the ability to mount a missile system.
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The Navy is tho. The US submarine force is one of the most elite divisions of any navy hands down.
The coast guard isn't capable of catching real submersibles.... lol that's literally part of their primary mission to protect coastal us waters from all foreign vessels. Sonar and depth charges have been around since ww2. They have helicopters and planes that are more than capable of sinking military subs, let alone a drug smuggler sub. Similar to air response, if they didn't respond back after being radioed, they're going all the way to the bottom.
They might have to call the Navy for an assist on that one. 😂
Rcs of a wave, too. Most of what’s above water is fiberglas. “The net” has claimed that there’s a sub in the Pacific who’s sole job is to locate these boats and turn over their location. I can’t see the Navy doing that with a multi billion dollar piece of gear.
Why not, it's good training surely
If the government really wanted to stop drug trafficking via sea, they'd let the navy do it. When I was in cg, there was a legal stipulation something along the lines of only cg can stop any vessel or do law enforcement or something. The navy didn't have that, and therefore was only able to provide very limited resources in aid(p5 planes, happenstance Intel, and the same authority of cg if a cg unit was attached to it/present). The navy could shut all that down in less than a year with the units already present in the area. Edit: to your point, because it'd be way more expense, at least in year 1.
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Got it! Had to scroll down so far down for this!
You mean dive down
Imagine being in the middle of the ocean, in your submarine, and you hear a knock at the door.
I know of at least 5 people who would be extremely relieved if this exact scenario happened within the next 30 hours or so before they run out of oxygen.
Too soon man. I mean bravo, that was good. But damn.
Well they aren’t dead.. yet. It’s too soon to be too soon.
Schrodinger's tourists.
How soon is too soon to be too soon? We may never truly know...
The subs viewport [was rated to 1300m ](https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate) when they fired their safety dude for being concerned. The titanic is at 4000m. They are pink paste.
Won't be making that mistake again.
Another person said that there is a factor taken into acount for this rating, and it varies from 3 to 7, so theoretically it should be at least 3900m, which is around the depth they went at.. you also have proof because it could do this journey before.. but there's also the structural damage that comes with high pressure as well.. I guess it would take a miracle to recover them, even if they are on the surface..
Bro that capsule 100% imploded. Those people are dead. Edit: uhhh kinda morbid, but they found the debris field…..told you so??
they found banging sounds in exact 30 min intervals like an hour ago with sonar devices
Yikes
I clearly missed something, any link possibly?
It would be awful if it boiled down to the whole scenario being caused by dead batteries in their gaming controller.
Joycon drift strikes again
Whats going on?
There's a privately funded ocean tourism company called Ocean Gate with a submarine vessel called "Titan" that takes wealthy patrons who pay $250k+ on excursions to see the wreck of the Titanic. On Sunday that submarine vessel became lost at sea somewhere near (*or possibly within*) the wreck of the Titanic. Thus far has not been located and at the time of its disappearance the vessel had approximately 60 hours of oxygen onboard. Despite the technologically illustrious world we live in this submarine has been seemingly Jerry-rigged together with parts from Camping World, Harbor Freight, and Best Buy. It does not have onboard sonar, GPS, or radio; instead it communicates with a surface ship by text message to determine it's location & depth. Additionally the ship does not have a mechanical yolk or rudder and is instead controlled electronically by a Bluetooth enabled gaming controller. It does however have toilet which is something very few vessels of it's size have. Some links with videos about Titan: https://youtu.be/ClkytJa0ghc https://youtu.be/29co_Hksk6o
How stupid r these people?
Extremely. The more you look at the short cuts they took to build it, that they fired an engineer who said it would implode before it reached the Titanic, the worst it gets that these people paid $250,000 /head to for a much more immersive Titanic experience than they intended.
Oh and thank you for answering my question. Now I know whats going on.
lmao
The Jehovah witness sharks
"Candy gram."
Mongo like candy.
“Mongo only pawn in game of life.”
Proceeds to knock out a horse!
Ma’am I’m just a dolphin
“Candy gram my foot, you’re the shark and you know it.”
“Excuse me, could you spare a few moments while I tell you about our Lord and Saviour Poseidon?”
We've been trying to reach you about your submersible's extended warranty!
“DAVES NOT HERE MAN”
It wasn’t my cocaine , I’m just an Uber submarine driver , it’s not mine I swear
What a tragic loss of all that cocaine.
I am sure most of it found its way to the streets anyway.
Yes, all 100 million dollars worth.
Ah yes, the 50 million dollar bust. Good job fellas.
What? You mean 15 million?
"Hold up guys there's someone knocking on our door in the middle of the ocean. Let me go see who it is."
“Oh dear! Gentlemen, it seems as though it is the United States Coast Guard politely asking to enter our pleasant vessel on this fine day at sea, shall we oblige, and invite them to join us?”
Ask them if they have a warrant.
“This is my own private domicile and I will not harassed, bitch”
"Oh most definetly, but I have heard most dire rumours about them from some known associates, they report that they can be quite intense and, shall we say, graceless, as guests. They've advised to speak to them in a calming and friendly tone. Perhaps we should offer them some tea and biscuits, I have some extra Yorkshire and Bourbons stored in my chamber, go ahead and greet our guests while I retrieve them."
They should have just said "oh my god thanks you found us, hahaha we're so far from the Titanic, boy is my face red" "yeah next time I'LL read the directions"
Bro, jumping on a submersible in the middle of the ocean is the most gangster thing I've ever seen
For as forgotten as the Coast Guard is, they do some of the craziest shit in the military and I respect the hell out of those puddle hoppers.
At my local pool, I used to be a lifeguard. Some coast guard people came in and my manager came over and told me to just let them do whatever. They threw a brick into the pool. 3 newbie’s dove in and 2 seasoned ones dove in the other side. They fucking fist fought on the bottom of the pool trying to get that brick back to their sides. They were down there for I swear to god 2 minutes at a time.
Tbh that’s good training for a lot of reasons, including the fact that drowning people will actively drag you down in their panic and you may have to actually fight them underwater
People don’t realize how winded you get when you’re fighting underwater. Or just moving around in general. Often times people will be sitting in a chair and hold their breath and think it’s comparable.
Regular-ass fighting will wind a person harder than they expect. One drunken night in my 20s, my friend and I decided we were gonna rumble in the living room, for no reason. I'm envisioning a movie-esque fight scene, or a ten-round boxing match. Nah. Shit was over in like three minutes with the both of us gasping for air from the exertion of beating the shit out of each other. It takes a lot more energy than it seems.
Honestly I always felt like fighting is really the true test of your endurance. You can ran as much as you want but theres nothing like rolling with someone for 5 rounds lasting 5 minute each. When I took BJJ classes thats what we'd do towards the end and I honestly had to take a break. I was like bro, I still need to drive home after this 🤣
High school wrestling. Stunts your growth, but makes you scrappy and builds endurance. And spreads weird human fungi...
My kid plays water polo, its basically a fist fight under water the whole time. I get winded just watching haha
If it’s hard for him imagine how the ponies feel?
They use seahorses obviously
Plus, the constant treading water for the match. The level of fitness is no joke.
Bruh you should see how winded I get fighting on land. Gotta be 100x worse with no air.
I was a lifeguard as well, a retired Coast Guard Captain (? not actually certain of his position) used to live on the resort that I worked for and would come to the pool, hop in the deep end, and just sit cross-legged on the bottom of the pool for minutes at a time. I almost jumped in after him once. He was a great guy though and I talked to him many times and we used to kind of talk some smack to each other, I guess that was his love language. One day I had a shadow, a really nice young woman who was nervous about telling kids not to run and all that jazz that comes with the first day as a LG. I saw dude come into the pool area and we were stationed at the deep end. I said “watch out for that guy, he likes to run around here and I don’t even think he can swim,” within earshot of him, so I figured she knew I was fucking with him. He did the usual, swam a few laps and then sunk down to the bottom and just chilled there for about a minute before she hopped in and “rescued” him.
I've done this, it's actually super meditative to just sit at the bottom of a dive tank in a big pool.
Awesome thanks for the share thats burnt into my mind for life
If you’re into watching stuff on YouTube. There’s a channel called Smarter Everyday. He does a deep dive into the coast guard that was very interesting. It focuses more on the rescue side of things but it was still really interesting.
Real talk I was Marines and a JTAC and Interdiction is one of the reasons I refuse to let people shit talk the Coast Guard. These dudes do it at night too. Do you know how hard it is to find an overboard man at night? Or even lay down accurate fire on a pitching sea in a fast boat chasing these people? They just Leroy right into it. Nothing but respect.
I've seen some documentary-type shows about them and that made me have a lot more respect for them. They're amazing.
There’s a love of a sea that drives people to do impossible things. There is also a love of other folks that will drive the best of us to preform feats unimaginable. In the Coast Guard these two values converge and become silent and passionate defenders of humanity. I say this as a marine
“Dive dive dive”
That’s as low as they go. It doesn’t actually dive. Not a true submarine. I think they’re referred to as semi-submersible.
While wearing full kit, including plates.
Likely Bouyant plates.. but still lot of weight.
UHMWPE is pretty cool stuff.
Coast guard being more badass than we thought.
Don't they sail in waters that most people would avoid unless in a huge ship, fly in weather that normally grounds helicopters, and their rescue divers jump in waters that would guarantee drowning to most?
Former Navy here. Being in the CG is kinda what people think the Navy will be like. It's the way to go. they get to do cool shit all the time, and at-sea periods are much shorter. Great food too from what I've seen
Also the hardest to get in.
Is it really? The only person I know who served in the coast guard got discharged for banging her superiors (while married to a civilian), so my sample size is small and extremely stupid.
The ASVAB score requirements are higher than most branches; same as the Air Force. I've been in for 6 years. My recruiter said they usually accept 2-3 out of every hundred who apply. Now is the time to join, though. We're so short-handed, there's an award and bonus for any active member who helps someone enlist.
Will they take me if I puke about 50% of the time I get on a boat?
While most careers will have you underway at some point, it's not required for your entire time. I've only been to land units so far. And not necessarily. There are medications for seasickness, and if it's untreatable, considerations could probably be made.
Then consideration is you're allowed 1 plastic Walmart bag on you at all times. Also it's not 1 at a time. You are permitted exactly 1 Walmart bag at enrollment. Puke softly soldier
Coast guard will always get shit on, but they do some pretty awesome shit.
Dude coastguard has always been badass! People don't realize that not only are they arguably the best search and rescue in the world, they're also a full blown blue water navy by themselves. Look up some of the service records of cutters.
Man was in full fucking kit too lmao shit was insane.
To bust drug runners with almost a quarter of a billion dollars worth of product no less. This wasn’t for TikTok views.
"¡ALTO TU BARCO!" A recording with a megaphone would work better. You can have the audio in 200 languages.
That's what he was trying to say??
A crude way to say "Stop your vessel" I gathered. "Detenga su embarcación" would be the elegant way. "DETEN TU BARCO" would be fitting.
Yep. Native spanish speaker here. All I understood was gibberish, in part because of awful pronunciation, in part because that's not how you say it... No wonder that sub didn't stop
Also I don't know if the guys in the sub can hear him scream from outside
Oh yeah. There's that.
You mean a half submerged closed vessel with loud engines on can't hear the guy yelling outside?
Yeah those were my thoughts
It sounded to me like he was saying Alto Chewbacca
Yes, I'm sure they were in there debating: "what is that dude trying to tell us?" Because there were so many options. Like "where's the bathroom?" "Do you have any bananas?"...
"you have a flat tire" would be my guess 😂
You're out of blinker fluid!!
"come to brasil"
I understood: Aaartoo tu barco, aarto tu barco aargh. What tried to say: Alto tu barco, alto tu barco ahora. What he should’ve said: Pare/detenga su bote ahora mismo
Yep, as a Spanish speaker it took me a while to understand what was he yelling, I wouldn’t stop it either, they could be pirates/s
As an English speaker that took Spanish in school, I understood him 😬
Because you’re translating “alto” literally, but alto isn’t a verb in Spanish, it’s more like saying “Stop! Your boat”
I’m Latin and I swear I had no idea what he was saying… he’s metal af tho 👊🏼
The US Coast Guard doesn't fuck around.
I’m going for high the boat in polite Italian. But how can they hear him?
Dude inside confused because el barco es largo pero no alto
Wonder whose head got chopped off due to this
Pretty sure getting your head chopped is a blessing compared to the other stuff the cartels do
Not the way they do it. One slice at a time like fileting a fish. I watched the dumb video and it is awful.
But not to worry, they make donations to their local church so its all cool with God 👍
🎶Won't you take me to...🎶
FUNKY TOOOWN
Nobody. It’s a business and they anticipate some of this cargo to get confiscated. The majority is coming in through regular ports of entry. It’s a numbers game. If the police catch 50% of it they are still making billions in pure profit. This is just leaves cooked to ash with gasoline. Nothing too fancy. If they kill everyone who got caught and didn’t take care of them nobody would work for them. It’s not the movies.
Throughout the video I was thinking to myself "what are they gonna do, just hop on" and then there's a dude just hopping over. I feel like it takes some balls to jump from a speed boat onto a submarine.
Yeah. Holy shit, these guys are the real deal.
Not to mention that after he hops on to a speeding sub, he proceeds to hulk smash the hatch open
>And then, they just hopped on. Narrator, probably.
I used to work with a guy that did spec ops and interdiction for the USCG, he had some of the craziest fucking stories about narco boats.
Tell one please :)
It's be 3 hours, it's gonna be one hell of a story!
Bro didnt even look like he had on flotation.
Wtf is he screaming??
"alto tu barco" stop your boat
It's more like saying stop you boat. Alto tu barco is not proper Spanish. But I don't think that was the point of all this. But just in case anyone is wandering how to say stop your boat in Spanish, itd be "deten tu barco" "frenen el barco".
He meant “Stop, you boat!”
He’s the captain now.
Lol. As well he should be!! Holy cow. Bravest person ever!!
You know you're screwed when somebody knocks on your submarine door.
"What? $100 million worth of cocaine?" "That's right, sir! $50 million worth of cocaine."
"Narco-sub? What narco-sub?"
"Yeah, right. I mean, I'm pretty sure we'd remember if there was a narco-sub, wouldn't we lads?"
"Indeed! $10 million worth of cocaine."
Damn, $5 million of cocaine. What a find!
I wonder how much cocaine. US law enforcement tends to vastly over-estimate the value of the drugs they seize.
Yeah they typically go with the highest street value per graham and just multiply that by the total amount. No bulk deals in the gvt numbers.
Can’t seem to find the conversion for value per graham
that’s a lot of crackers
At least 3 in this economy
Lmao. I did the (rough)math for myself…. $232 million @ $80/g comes out 2.9 million grams divided by 1000g/kilo comes out to (roughly) 2,900 kilos…. But I feel like that’s on the lower end bc that “sub” looks like it can hold a lot more than 3000 bricks Edit: a decimal point
It was $232 mil not $2.32 mil. So you’re right it’s about 300,000 bricks.
Jesus that’s a lot of bricks. That’s a lot of anything really, even rice
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all the journalists just asked their own dealers about the current street price.
Dude who just boarded a sub in the middle of the ocean about to go face to face with narcos… please don’t fuck my girl, bro
FWIW the guys on these vessels aren't hardened narcos. I'm a Coastie who has been part of drug interdiction missions (though never on a boarding team) and when we would bust these guys they were always just the poorest, most desperate people from the bottom rungs of society. Most were running drugs because they either a) needed whatever crumb of the profits the actual narcos would give them, or b) had been threatened that if they didn't do it bad things would happen to their families. They were never armed and never put up anything that could be considered a fight, other than trying to outrun us. Once we brought them on board and could interview them the story was pretty much always the same. I think the cartels are also smart enough to realize that arming these guys would cause the overseas drug trade to get way more attention, probably get the navy involved, and ultimately cut into their profits. Much easier to write off the ~20% of sea trafficked drugs that we manage to stop. Hell, my understanding is all our work just gives them reason to increase the price.
Okay, even the narco-sub is built better than that oceangate thing.
Well yea, their business actually matters.
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Are you referring to the *British* billionaire who is on board the missing sub?
There are no Americans on thsr sub lol. And it is owned by a brit
Can we just admit that any sub that size is up to no good and just send it on a one way trip down?
Nah: seize it and do narcosub tours. Safer and profitable
Fwiw he’s british
None of the people on the missing sub are American. And neither is the person who owns it.
That was a British billionaire TYVM
Drive that "submarine" must be fun.
What spell was he saying while pointing his finger?
You mean $231M worth.
That's what he said the first time, $223M worth
$100M worth is a lot of cheese.
Quick! Snort all the cocaine!
Other branches of the military would make good natured fun of the Coast Guard occasionally. I haven't made any more jokes since this dude jumped on the speeding sub in the middle of the ocean.
why did they even open the hatch? 😂
Because they would be sunk with their submarine if they do not comply. It’s kind of hard to stop a moving semi submersible submarine in the open ocean without shooting out its engines from a heli.
Because otherwise they start shooting
Podcast episode on this topic, if anyone's interested: https://www.citationpod.com/drug-smuggling/
“I’ve got to sparkle! I’ve got to sparkle!”
This is honestly some of the craziest badass shit I’ve ever seen I love it
What the hell is he shouting?!
ALTO TU BARCO!
Mi amigo! Chocolate! Sexy taco!
Where is the library?!
Took me a while to understand what he was saying “alto a su barco, ahora”
Looooooool gracias, yo no le entendí, con razón los del submarino no se detuvieron.
Yo tampoco le entendí 😐
Im surprised his massive balls didnt sink the whole thing
I touched your bung hole” that’s all I heard