“Narco Sub” intercepted in Pacific Ocean off Colombia with hundreds of packages of cocaine labeled “Rocky”.

A semi-submersible carrying nearly 1,000 packages of cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Colombia, the country’s navy said Monday. The news came about a week after officers confiscated one so-called “narco submarine” with two corpses and a huge amount of drugs in the same region.

Three men were aboard the 50-foot semi-submersible when it was spotted by Colombian Navy units backed by the national air force, officials said. The Navy said in a statement the ship was carrying 985 packets of cocaine worth about $33 million and was bound for Central America.

The seizure kept about 2.5 million doses of illegal drugs off the market, it said.

Officials posted a video of the ship seizure showing officers unloading packages from the ship, some of which appeared to be labeled ‘ROCKY’ and ‘LMM’.

In addition to the drugs, military officers found navigation and communications equipment on the boat.

“This operation was completed thanks to information from Naval Intelligence and the capabilities of the Coast Guard,” Captain Cristian Andres Guzman Echeverry said in the video released by the Navy.

The confiscated cargo, along with the three people arrested from the ship, were taken to a port in Tumaco, where the drugs tested positive for cocaine, officials said.

“The Colombian Navy will continue to use all its capabilities to stop drug trafficking,” Guzman Echeverry said.

Last week, the Colombian Navy said it had seized a cocaine-laden submarine with two bodies and two people in “poor health” on board. And just days later, officials in north-west Spain again fled afloat homemade semi-submersible Ship they suspect was used to transport cocaine.

“Narco submarines” are commonly used by human traffickers in Central and South America to transport drugs. The ships move deep in the water to avoid detection and can rarely fully submerge.

The submarines sometimes make it to North America. In 2019A submarine containing 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $165 million was seized by the US Coast Guard.