Coast Guard Cutter Alert boarding teams interdict a low-profile go-fast vessel suspected of smuggling cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean while Alert conducts a counter-drug patrol in international waters off the coast of Central and South America, Jan. 4, 2019. Alert’s boarding teams seized more than 5,700 pounds of cocaine from two suspected drug smuggling vessels interdicted during the cutter’s 60-day patrol. U.S. Coast Guard photo.