Scuba Diver Caught Smuggling Drugs Across U.S.-Canada Border

[nimoh]

PLEASE - get your effing facts straight. It was NOT a diver. It was a surface swimmer in a wetsuit pulling a dry bag. No SCUBA invalved, no diver involved. A s u r f a c e swimmer in a freakin wetsuit.

where did the scuba gear that was shown in a picture in the article and claimed to have been seized by authorities come from?

 

[kelemvor]

PLEASE - get your effing facts straight. It was NOT a diver. It was a surface swimmer in a wetsuit pulling a dry bag. No SCUBA invalved, no diver involved. A s u r f a c e swimmer in a freakin wetsuit.

Interesting twist. Do you have an article about it? The article quoted says it was a scuba diver and even has a photo of the tank/bc/reg/fins they confiscated from him. Maybe he ran OOA and had to complete the trip on the surface? A kilometer is a long way to travel, and the guy was only certified a few days before the incident if you read OP's post.

 

[dfx]

Interesting twist. Do you have an article about it? The article quoted says it was a scuba diver and even has a photo of the tank/bc/reg/fins they confiscated from him. Maybe he ran OOA and had to complete the trip on the surface? A kilometer is a long way to travel, and the guy was only certified a few days before the incident if you read OP's post.

Or maybe he got freaked by the cold, dark, current and just couldn't do the dive. I know I would have been right after my cert, and at least in the picture of the pile of gear, I don't see a light.

 

[drbill]

Given his newly certified status, I'd refer to him as a drug smuggler using SCUBA to transport pot rather than as a SCUBA diver. He probably only got certified so he could do this.

 

[toddthecat]

Given his newly certified status, I'd refer to him as a drug smuggler using SCUBA to transport pot rather than as a SCUBA diver. He probably only got certified so he could do this.

Hit the nail on the head with that one. Back in the late 90s/early 00s there were some guys in Florida who were in training to be pilots. Turns out they were just using airplanes rather than become pilots. Not everything is what it seems.

 

[carltona]

I'm thinking he intended to go underwater but didn't count on how buoyant 8lbs of pot is in a dry bag.


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[Pullmyfinger]

Imagine that! Straight out of open water, and he was able to navigate, and do a solo dive without dying.
he must have had a pretty good Instructor.

Interesting twist. Do you have an article about it? The article quoted says it was a scuba diver and even has a photo of the tank/bc/reg/fins they confiscated from him. Maybe he ran OOA and had to complete the trip on the surface? A kilometer is a long way to travel, and the guy was only certified a few days before the incident if you read OP's post.

 

[rjk75]

I'm thinking he intended to go underwater but didn't count on how buoyant 8lbs of pot is in a dry bag.

Yeah, those "square groupers" will do that to you everytime. ;-)

 

[flots am]

I work for the Sheriff office that has him in custody. If you want to get into the US without all the PITA stuff, go across the lakes. They have not checked us out yet and I know for a fact that they are not routinely patrolled as of yet. I still don't understand why he had to smuggle it while scuba diving, when it is extremely cheap and not hard to get a hold of here. A few years ago we busted a gun runner trying to take fully automatic rifles into Canada, now that's a real threat.

I remember crossing over into Canada for a SCUBA trip and the customs officer asked me if I had a knife.

That question confuses me to this very day.

I'm pretty sure Canada already has knife-technology and that knives are freely available.

Not sure why she would care.