Coast Guardsmen from the Cutter Waesche from Alameda, Calif. dewater a self-propelled semisubmersible in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America September 6. The servicemembers seized more than 5,600 pounds of cocaine and safely apprehended five suspected drug smugglers from the smuggling vessel. This is the sixth SPSS interdiction by the Coast Guard in Fiscal Year 2016, which runs from Oct. 1, 2015, to Sept. 30, 2016, and marks more than 416,600 pounds of cocaine worth more than $5.6 billion intercepted by Coast Guardsmen in Fiscal Year 2016, a new record for the service. Coast Guard video courtesy of Cutter Waesche.
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