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Why spend more money on robotics when you have an almost unlimited supply of patsies. A 2 weeks trip originating in narrow Jungle swamps and transiting deep ocean water would require serious robotic control. But if they keep making so much money I wouldn't be surprised if they went all Mars rover on the subs. Hell when I first saw these things a few years back they were just fiberglass boats with no top, that Feb 1st craft was a legitimate submarine.

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Valid point. Although, maybe a remote controlled one could be made smaller or dive deeper and thus be less easy to detect.

It could be made more solid through and through, thus be less likely to be crushed at lower depths, thus become smaller. Most of the space is probably due to life support and the driver being able to move around in it, and not to store the goods.

Actually, they only load the vessels once they're on the ocean already.

In the VBS.tv piece mentioned before, a guy that purportedly was involved in making and presenting a kind of towed torpedo to the cartels, said he wouldn't be surprised they'd have such a remote controlled device already, and that he was sure they we're already looking into it. You can watch it.

And I remember seeing something in the news, not long ago, that they we're already doing it for shipping cocaine directly to Europe.

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