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Charleston based CG cutter finds cocaine loaden submarine
Crew members from a Charleston-based Coast Guard cutter ship named the Oak helped track down a submarine-like watercraft carrying more than seven and a half tons of cocaine in the Caribbean, ABC News reports. A C-130 fixed-wing aircrew originally spotted the suspicious vessel and notified U.S. Customs and a Border Protection maritime patrol airplane. The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Seneca, from Boston, and a Coast Guard helicopter crew interdicted the drug-smuggling vessel, called a self-propelled semi-submersible (SPSS). The SPSS sank and its crew was detained but not before more than $180 million in cocaine was seized. The Seneca crew began searching for the sunken SPSS on July 13, as did the Honduran Navy and FBI dive teams. The crew of Charleston's 225-foot Oak found the missing vessel using side-sonar equipment. More with video footage: http://www.abcnews4.com/story/15194897/charleston-based-coast-guard-vessel-crew-finds-missing-drug-smuggling-ship
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