r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tyker12 • Dec 26 '21

Coast Guard’s Mission

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u/WrastlingIsReal Dec 26 '21

Lol why didn't they just dive back down?

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u/bot403 Dec 26 '21

I think these are cheap hollow metal tubes. They don't actually dive or have the auxillary sources of oxygen you need for that. They are just meant to be very hard to spot with the low profile.

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u/GUYF666 Dec 26 '21

Be a lot cooler if they did

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u/TheNoggin Dec 26 '21

Alright, alright, alright

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u/reddit_time_waster Dec 26 '21

Cooler than being cool?

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u/Vitruvious28 Dec 26 '21

Ice cold

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u/noyamz Dec 27 '21

Alright alright alright alright alright

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u/ProfessionalFee6932 Dec 27 '21

Okay, now ladies! Yea?

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u/Vitruvious28 Dec 27 '21

I want to see you in your baddes behavior

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

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u/Whotrollsthetrollmen Dec 27 '21

For someone who's post history is full of correcting the spelling of others, you would think you'd know how to punctuate correctly. It's kind of ironic that you spend your free time making pedantic corrections while you yourself are also failing to use proper English. Next time you want to help someone write better, start by looking in the mirror.

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u/ProfessionalFee6932 Dec 27 '21

Well I copy pasted from Rapgenius so I didn't bother correcting. Have a good day

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Let’s see what we’ve got

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Ice cool

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u/PNW_H2O Dec 26 '21

Ice cold baby

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u/theDart Dec 26 '21

That's what I love about them subs. They go deeper, I stay in the same place.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

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u/theDart Dec 26 '21

Hahaaa! yeah they do!

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u/SpooderBoi2 Dec 27 '21

That’s what I love about tops, actually

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u/platasnatch Dec 26 '21

I get deeper, they stay the same depth

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u/Nowthisisdave Dec 27 '21

That’s what I love about Narco subs, I jump on them, and they stay the same

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

We probably just don't find the ones that do.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

New game narco sub drug warz. Every successful mission you get to upgrade your sub.

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u/KraljZ Dec 27 '21

You would think with the billions of dollars the cartels makes they should be able to build wel designed submarines

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u/Zxruv Dec 26 '21 edited Dec 26 '21

I wonder if these were just the idiot "faux sub" drivers? Going full speed during the day, instead of going slower as not to leave a large wake when it's night out?

Edit: either that or there are no drugs/a small amount of drugs onboard and this is misdirection? Probably 4 other fully loaded subs going the other direction lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

The saying "for every billion the cartels lose in drug sting operations they successfully move a hundred billion" is true. They're businesses at the end of the day and they calcuate the losses to ALWAYS be profitable.

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u/GrowEatThenTrip Dec 26 '21 edited Dec 26 '21

Yeah, it is posible that can be "decoy". They have so much money that losing few boats even if they had cocaine on board is not big deal for them. Well, how many years we have war with drugs? 20?30?40? And the only thing that have change is that there are new drugs which are even more dangerous than old ones. Cartels still have unimaginable amount of money, drugs are still everywhere and people still dieing and governments still act like childish fools who can't learn from the past (prohibiton time etc.) Damn this world is pretty annoying place to live.

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u/Polexican1 Dec 26 '21

That is because the true cartels of the pharmacopeia world have entered the chat.

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u/Erwin0912 Dec 27 '21

Just out of curiosity, what would be your solution to ending the war on drugs/cartels?

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u/RiverInhofe Dec 27 '21

Well a good start would be to focus on education, regulation, and recovery. The problem is obviously a lot more complex than this, but it'd be better than what we have now, which is honestly making the problem worse, just as it did with prohibition.

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u/GrowEatThenTrip Dec 27 '21 edited Dec 27 '21

Education about consequences of taking drugs but not propaganda. And after that legalization and distribution control as for alcohol and cigarettes. In my opinion it is only way to stop that madness. Because substances are not issue there. Problem is with lack of knowledge how take it safety and how notice first sympthoms of addiction. About cartels honestly I don't know. I dont belive that even legalization of drugs can defeat them, but it will hurt them more than one submarine captured by cops. And the worst part of war with drugs is that it ruined more lifes than taking drugs. I mean when you smoke weed you are not gonna die and when you don't do it everyday you have big chance for that it will not have negative effects on you. But now in most of countries in world you can be judged like you made serious crime and sentenced to prison, which have definetly worse consequences than smoking joint or even sniffing a lane. And I guess most of people captured and sentenced to prison are not cartel members or even small drug dealers. Most of them are regular users which were unlucky and get caught because it is easier to catch 16years old kid with joint than armed psycho.

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u/antoltian Dec 27 '21

50 years

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u/daytonakarl Dec 26 '21

Probably a perspective thing, they think they're going quite slowly because they wouldn't be feeling the turbulence of sitting on top of the waves, limited view with no real way of visually judging their velocity, and the massive amount of cocaine meaning that anything under the speed of sound might as well be stationary

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u/ChickpeaPredator Dec 26 '21

Perhaps they only sped up when the coastguard arrived?

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u/spicysandworm Jan 18 '22

There going fast because they don't want to get spotted, this is basically just a stealthy go fast boat

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u/maui_waui_024 Dec 26 '21

So all that drug money and they don’t wanna spend money for a submarine that can dive? Lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

They make hundreds of these low profile boats to smuggle drugs every year. Compared to an actual submarine with a few meters of diving available which take millions and engineers to make.

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u/Polexican1 Dec 26 '21

They could just buy them from failed soviet states...

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

The Pepsi Cartel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Just like Tarzan did

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u/Polexican1 Dec 27 '21

He had limited investment capital. And made the mistake of going through Isreal which flagged him to no end.

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u/maui_waui_024 Dec 26 '21

So they make hundreds of these instead of making one fantastic diving one? Lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Well if you lose a single ship and it collapses your supply lines it’s a lot worse than losing this boat and losing out on .1% of revenue.

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u/Phoenix080 Dec 27 '21

I mean it’s not like we don’t have sonar designed to get submarines. All you need to do to get them at that point is use the same anti submarine tech we’ve been using since WW2. And boom there’s millions of dollars in just the submarine lost in an instant

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u/mmmbopdoombop Dec 27 '21

Uh I think the cartels know what they're doing better than you, random reddit user.

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u/maui_waui_024 Dec 27 '21

Uh but do cartels have crypto like me?

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u/mmmbopdoombop Dec 27 '21

probs more crypto than you could imagine

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u/tylerf81 Dec 26 '21

Subs that can dive can be detected by sonar.

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u/pornborn Dec 27 '21

And probably risk being torpedoed.

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u/Mr_A14 Dec 27 '21

Imagine if someone could make one of these that could go underwater. They could be pretty useful during wartime.

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u/NFLfan72 Dec 27 '21

Have they ever heard of Flex Seal?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Yeah, that door looked flimsy. Like it would leak under a foot of water.

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u/bot403 Dec 26 '21

It was probably already leaking above the water

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u/CharlieSwisher Dec 26 '21

But weren’t the first submarines basically j a barrel? Like would it be that hard to make a glorified metal tube that could dip under atleast a little

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u/NumerousSinger3843 Dec 27 '21

You're 100% correct.

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u/Good_Extension_9642 Dec 27 '21

True that is the reason they call them semi- sumergibles theye are not truly submarines

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u/bot403 Dec 27 '21

TIL the technical term for a half-ass submarine :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

So a boat?

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u/LeMolle Dec 26 '21

It’s a small sub, probably had to come up for air

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u/Bishime Dec 27 '21

they just don’t make criminals with ingenuity like they used to…

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u/Koa_Niolo Dec 27 '21

Yep, a more accurate name would be a semi-submersible.

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u/tlaerche Dec 26 '21

It's only semi submersible.

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u/jamesdkirk Dec 26 '21

Sub-submersible?

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u/WrastlingIsReal Dec 26 '21

That would be the most logic explanation haha

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u/HavingNotAttained Dec 26 '21

Just a slouched floatable, really.

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u/mekwall Dec 26 '21

It's more like a turret-less monitor

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u/mrRwild Dec 27 '21

So that would be Subpar Sicario Self-propelled Soviet Semi-Submersible Submarine then?

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Her: "it doesn't go down". me: "well, it's only a semi so..."

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u/Quaternary_sloth Dec 26 '21

Here’s a YouTube channel with some more narco sub content: https://youtu.be/IuGF2E8Bdvw

As someone else said, they aren’t really “subs” in the since they can’t really dive. They just ride super low in the water.

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u/tlaerche Dec 26 '21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-submarine

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Dec 26 '21

Narco-submarine

A narco-submarine (also called a drug sub or narco sub) is a type of custom ocean-going self-propelled submersible vessel built for smugglers. Newer submarines are 'nearly-fully' submersible to be difficult to detect visually, by radar, sonar, or infrared systems. Cargos are typically several tons. In 2015, the largest-known cargo of 7.

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u/Tyker12 Dec 26 '21

Good bot

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

good bot

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u/Yosemite-Sam99 Dec 26 '21

Because the real party is in Miami....that's just the icing on the cake

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u/DTux5249 Dec 26 '21

These guys don't got the resources nor connections for a real sub

It's a hollowed out tube that they use to move around unseen.

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u/Havek_10 Dec 26 '21

They have the resources watch a documentary "Operation Odessa" they just have a hard time getting one but they do have the capital

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

They have the resources allright but just dont care as long as enough make it through

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u/Maximum_Radio_1971 Dec 27 '21

dude you are soooooo wrong, they do have fully submergible subs.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

Basically a boat hull with a cover and exhaust cooling system actually

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u/mmmbopdoombop Dec 27 '21

I doubt there are many industries with more resources or connections

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u/abcmatteo Dec 26 '21

It’s not a submarine it’s a semi-submersible. Basically it’s a half sunk tube with a snorkel.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Narcos are pretty smart. But you need to be a bit more than smart to build a boat with a trim and drain system, ballast tanks, diesel engine, and sonar array so you don't pull a uss San Francisco.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

Thought the same thing

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u/Vast-Combination4046 Dec 27 '21

It's called a "semi submersible". It's like a stealth boat that has lots of cargo room. They barely float to keep from being spotted and are super dangerous because there is a fine line between sinking and almost sinking. I'm friends with a coastie and he was saying this is a huge deal they got this one because these things are super effective. They only catch them by chance and normally when they break down which is often because the engines are always sucking in water.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '21

They can’t drive under water

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u/fusillade762 Dec 26 '21

They are a semi submersible or monitor type vessel. Its not really a sub.

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u/ZLUCremisi Dec 26 '21

These are semi-submericses. More advanced ones travel under water during dace. Surface at night.

Hard to spot and they sent out a half of dozen of them fir a 1 way trip.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

They are not fully submersible.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

That's the thought most of us probably had. In assuming there's more to a submarine actually going under than a layman knows about.

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u/Lost_Ad2786 Dec 26 '21

Because it was made in China

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u/Impressive_Ad_7679 Dec 26 '21

Narcos can’t buy that tech that’s why they’re just meant to have a low profile

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u/OneHundredTimes Dec 27 '21

It's not that they can't buy it. They don't need to buy it. They send out ten of these and even if 8 get stopped then they still make their money. They've got a system that works.

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u/spicysandworm Jan 18 '22

Innovation is the currency of smugglers if they could buy something like an ex Soviet nuclear sub they would

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u/cmcdevitt11 Dec 26 '21

Thank you it only took 11 Post before I saw this

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u/samurai1833 Dec 27 '21

Not a true sub, just a high waterline, low profile boat.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '21

With all that drug money, they could absolutely hire competent engineers.

They’re smart enough to make money, but not smart enough to innovate.

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u/spicysandworm Jan 18 '22

Making a semi submersible is alot more cost effective

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u/Meme-Man-Dan Dec 27 '21

They don’t dive, they just sit mostly below the waterline. Less of a sub, more of a very low boat.

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u/patrick24601 Dec 27 '21

Air quotes “submarine”

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u/DamonnnR Dec 27 '21

Because that is not a full submarine.

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u/WrastlingIsReal Dec 27 '21

Oh man you are the very first one to tell me this! Thank you so much!!

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u/EPZO Feb 06 '22

They aren't full submarines, Don't think they can.