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Of being built. >> we do. we operate on that. >> so we're 35 feet, 40 feet below the ground. >> correct. >> and this was done with pretty rudeimentry tools. >> absolutely. these striations that you see here are exactly the markings that a pneumatic spade, which is a handheld tool, would do for cutting in. the other tools we found down here, believe it or not, are a pick axe. >> reporter: tunnels like this ever more important in the drug trade as board security increases. >> we're pushing them literally into the jounld ground and into the ocean. >> reporter: miguel markez, cnn. >> it's amazing ...

Then they had a power system which they would use for the pneumatic spade and for lighting. >> reporter: so this is the shred on regular mining tracks to move dirt oust 9 tunnel and drugs across the tunnel. they had gone 16700 feet, about six football fields all the way into mexico. the tunnelers weren't exactly on target as they dug. i take it, joe, they came up here thinking they were inside the warehouse and this is just outside the warehouse? >> you are absolutely, 100% correct. yes. >> reporter: how many times did they miss their target? >> that we can see, they missed it like about three...

Stage of being built? >> we do. we operate on that. >> reporter: so we're 35 feet below the ground right now? >> correct. >> reporter: and this was dug with pretty rudimentary schools of some sort. >> absolutely. these strie wagss that you see here are exactly the markings that a pneumatic spade, which is a handheld tool. the other tools are a pick ax and a shovel. >> this is amazing. you descend all of this way and by the time you get to this part of the tunnel, it's a hole. tunnels like this are ever more important in the drug trade. as security increases, the cartels have to work harder. >>...