Posted on 07/12/2019 7:19:59 AM PDT by simpson96
Video from the U.S. Coast Guard shows crew members boarding a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, with one pounding on the hatch until someone inside opened it, reportedly finding over 17,000 pounds of cocaine.
Coast Guardsman jumps onto narco-submarine loaded with drugs in Pacific Ocean
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Why bother...just sink it.
Have you ever seen a coked-up shark?
The guy deserves a medal and a trip to WH. If he fell off the prop could chew him up.
Sink the sucker.
Yes I have. It was at the Italian Club in South Jersey.
Badass indeed, but a rhetorical question please. If this incident was off of the coast of South America, why was it the US Coast Guard doing the interdiction and not the navy of Columbia or Equidor?
LOL
International Waters with national security implications. We did drug interdiction in the caribe all the time with the CG. Had to fly the CG Flag on our US Navy ship though, otherwise it would have been a big no-no.
“If this incident was off of the coast of South America, why was it the US Coast Guard doing the interdiction“
If it was in international waters then the CG is perfectly entitled to board and search suspicious vessels. And there may be an agreement in place to allow them to operate inside the 12 mile limit.
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guys
Here’s a tip. When you post something try to have a point. It makes things so much more interesting to the reader.
Enjoy your day.
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If they sink it, then they won’t have that photo op of all the drugs on some fold-out table to show to Congress the next time they are trying to get a funding increase.
The vid of the capture has a link to “cartels’ submersible navy”. The Colombian coast guard HQ has several of these vessels on display.
Now the cocaine delivery vehicle of choice is a “torpedo” towed behind ordinary fishing boats & is not only much more difficult to detect but can be towed across the Atlantic to Europe.
Which begs the question: who is doing all that cocaine, once it’s delivered to the retail end of the chain?
Millions of cokeheads, that’s who. The cartels are only a symptom of a much broader societal problem.
Wonder what the cocaine usage rate was among Hillary voters?
“Have you ever seen a coked-up shark?”
That’s the funniest line I’ve seen this week.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat....
Pretty impressive effort! Really can’t believe the guy jumped on board (!!!) and started beating the hatch. THAT is badass...
It's resale value is high?
My first thought as well. Don't they have that nice little 3" deck gun? Target practice!
Thanks for posting that pix.My old XP landline setup doesn’t do FB and many of the picture links some of those posting offer.
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