Boat Life — All Hands On Deck

Drug Sub

Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast.

About 200 miles off the southern state, the 30-foot makeshift submarine was detected heading north. When the green-topped, arrowhead-shaped vessel surfaced hours later, it was intercepted and its crew was taken into custody without resistance.

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