The U.S. Coast Guard reportedly seized nearly 15,000 pounds of cocaine from a submarine-like vessel off the Caribbean coast of Honduras on July 13th.
The cocaine, which was recovered by the crew of the Boston-based Coast Guard Cutter Seneca in mid-July, has an estimated street value of $180 million. The contraband had been stowed on a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel.
Authorities detained the vessel's crew and recovered some drugs before the boat sank, the Coast Guard said.
Several Coast Guard cutters, the Honduran Navy and FBI dive teams then used side-sonar equipment to search for the sunken submarine-like vessel, which was located on July 26. It took authorities about three days to recover the rest of the drugs from the sunken vessel.
