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Drug Subs: Tune into the NatGeo special this Sunday
Date: January 7, 2010
By The Coast Guard Compass
This Sunday, January 10 at 10 p.m. (east and west coast times), the National Geographic Channel will air Inside Cocaine Submarines. The NatGeo special will focus on the latest technologies used by both smugglers and law enforcement in the war on drugs.
Click here to watch video teasers that will include footage and interviews on the experimental ship, the Stiletto.
Despite the best efforts of narcoterrorists, Guardians have been regularly seizing self-propelled semi-submersibles (SPSS) for the past several years.
Interdictions by Coast Guard units like the CGC Jarvis or the CGC Midgett are just some of the successes in stopping SPSS runs of illegal narcotics to America’s shores. Guardians working alongside Army and Navy personnel as part of Joint Inter-Agency Task Force-South are using cutting edge technology in the form of the Pentagon’s experimental high-speed boat Stiletto on the front lines to stop drug subs. The Stiletto is the focus of the above video clip from Inside Cocaine Submarines.
A U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) team exits the experimental ship Stiletto aboard a Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) in preparation for a training exercise near the South Florida coast. (Photo by Jose Ruiz, U.S. Southern Command Public Affairs)
In 2009, the Coast Guard seized 11 of the subs (along with their crews) and interdicted more than 64 million tons of cocaine in the process.
Tune in to the National Geographic Channel at 10pm (east and west coast times) this Sunday, 10 Jan. to watch Inside Cocaine Submarines.