Submerged

The picture below may look like a Beluga whale sporting body paint, but it's actually...

...a Colombian "drug-sub" that was discovered partially hidden in an Ecuadorian marsh.

Wired magazine recently reported on the "anatomy" of this underwater craft intended to convey massive amounts of drugs, in particular cocaine, out of Colombia undetected (hence, the underwater factor).  The submarine was engineered and crafted specifically for this purpose.  So, the 74 foot craft includes all manners of hardware.  For example, the steering devices that manipulate the fins are former go-kart steering wheels.  Whoever is capable of guesstimating the cost of an illicit Colombian drug-sub said that the completed project (which it nearly was, yet no maiden voyage attained) would have cost about $5 million.  That's actually a pretty cool figure when one accounts for the guesstimate of how much cocaine the sub could transport which is 9 tons which equates to a street value of $250 million.

This is not the first effort to transport narcotics via Poseidon's thoroughfare.  There have been other subs which are described more as "underwater coffins" and also GPS infected torpedoes.  Needless to say, everything has an origin, and sometimes that origin was handcrafted by countless determined South Americans motivated to put dinner on the table, and serendipitously, perhaps, many of the parts were said to be have been made in China. 

Life sometimes can be submerged.
Submerged: –adjective

  under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated