So, were they subs?

Does this sound believable?

The four-man crew of a submarine carrying cocaine seized earlier this week was transferred to a Mexico City jail on Thursday, authorities said.

The submarine – which according to media reports was homemade – had been escorted to the Oaxaca shoreline on Wednesday by the Navy, after being stopped for navigating illegally.

The greentopped, arrowhead-shaped vessel was intercepted when it surfaced mere hours after being tracked by a plane about 200 miles (322 kilometers) off the coast of Oaxaca, and the crew was immediately taken into custody without putting up resistance.

The suspects were first flown by helicopter to the city of Huatulco, where they told reporters that they had left the Colombian coastal town of Buenaventura a week ago.

The crew members said they were fishermen, and had been forced to make the journey by drug traffickers at home who had threatened to harm their families.

Aren’t the Colombia military forces supposedly creative and unstoppable? Besides the obvious point that as long as there’s a willing cocaine buyer, sellers are going to find some way of getting to market (even if you believe the crew was a press gang), it’s one more reason to question the veracity of any statement by Colombian officialdom.