Here is a story from CBS News about a home-made submarine caught off the coast of Costa Rica carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine.
Here is where it gets complicated. Drug dealers have difficulty deciding on whether to sell their product using the metric system or imperial. I expect that it has to do with the desire to short the customer and maximize profit. A ton (imperial) is 907 kilograms. A tonne (metric) is 1000 kilograms. From the bulk shipment cocaine is sold by the kilogram. It is then “stepped on” and broken down to the ounce. Usually from the ounce to the “eight ball” which is 3.5 grams and from there to the gram and if it is cooked into crack to a tenth of a gram for your less financially secure individuals to consume.
As the cocaine moves north the price increases and when it gets to Canada is worth roughly $100 a gram. So even using the Imperial Ton and assuming a criminal organization that deals with the cocaine from supplier to the sale on the street, we are talking about a sub using breathing tubes carrying $297 million worth the blow. This story just goes to show that the strategy of the cartels is to throw tons or tonnes of cocaine at the United States and hope it gets through. For $297 million dollars worth the cocaine this trio should have contacted Mikhail Puchkov and bought his home-made submarine which can actually submerge. The pictures of this submarine are worth checking out.
