It would be simple to make them surface. Simply drop a large rock down one of the pipes and yell "the next one will be a grenade!"
They'll surface.
From: Ray Keefer <psubs2001@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More on that drug sub:
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:46:30 -0800 (PST)
>Hi,
>
>I noticed that there are not any pictures. How can we
>learn without details..... :(
>Educated guesses then:
>
>From the discription the design sounds like a David
>boat. Mostly underwater but not a submersible. Well
>maybe it was since it was six feet under. Wood and
>fiberglass is not a deep diver.
>
>Moving at 7mph, with pipes sticking up, and "several
>tanks of gas" tells me this had an gasoline engine.
>Certainly these guys are not PSUBS regulars. Gasoline
>engines in a submersible are no-nos.
>
>As for spotting three pipes skimming across the sea.
>Radar would have a hard time to pick up plastic. They
>had to be huge pipes to be spotted visually. Maybe
>infrared?
>
>Why three pipes? Intake, exhaust, and periscope?
>Wouldn't exhaust melt plastic?
>
>How does one capture a submerged object with just
>three plastic pipes poking up? Drive a dingy over to
>them and yell down the tube, "Surface, this is the
>Goast Guard!"? Park a cutter across their path and
>they will surface to see what it was they crashed
>into? Go fishing with a few hand granades (silly you
>might actually sink it).
>
>What is happening to these subs once captured. eBay
>would be a great way to recoup some of the drug
>fighting costs. Of course bad guys might just buy them
>back for a refit for another try. I guess they will go
>to the scrap heap.
>
>Regards,
>Ray
>--- Michael B Holt <mholt@ohiohills.com> wrote:
>
> > http://www.yahoo.com/s/441785
> >
> > Not that it was 100 miles offshore! What sort of
> > navigation system was
> > it using?
> >
> > And: who's designing these things?!!
> >
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Politics hasn't been a serious matter since dueling
> > was outlawed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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