Watch Coast Guard Bust Submarine Carrying 12,000 Tons Of Cocaine

The US Coast Guard busted a submarine carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean earlier this month.

That's $165 million worth of coke, for those of you who believe such government translations.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant entered the 40-foot "narco sub" and apprehended the four crew members. They were able to recover over 1,100 pounds of the coke. However, the other 10,900 pounds “could not be safely extracted due to stability concerns of the vessel.”

"There are no words to describe the feeling Valiant crew is experiencing right now," said the ship's commanding officer Cmdr. Matthew Waldron. "In a 24-hour period, the crew both crossed the equator and intercepted a drug-laden self-propelled semi-submersible vessel. Each in and of themselves is momentous events in any cutterman’s career."

His boss, Coast Guard Lt. Commander Matthew Kroll, was also quite pleased.

"The detection of a semi-submersible submarine is very difficult especially at night, that's when this one was spotted by an aircraft that was flying in a routine patrol in the area. They vectored in the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant and in the early morning hours, the cutter launched one or two small boats to interdict the submarine," Kroll told ABC News. "The majority of the vessels that we interdict are coming out of South America, and they're trying to get their way to either southern Mexico or central Central America, via the eastern Pacific maritime routes. So that's where the majority of our assets, along with the assets of multiple Nations and other agencies, the United States that are working together to stop those transit zones."

The #Florida @USCG Cutter Valiant took down a narco sub carrying 12k lbs of cocaine in the #EasternPacific, cutting approximately $165 mil from smuggler pockets.

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— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) September 24, 2019