The US Coast Guard announced the interception of a so-called "narco submarine [2]," while in a joint patrol of Caribbean waters with the Honduran armed forces. On July 13, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Seneca interdicted the craft, called a self-propelled semi-submersible or SPSS, off the coast of Honduras [3] near the Nicaraguan border. The Coast Guard says the vessel sank during the interdiction, but that nearly 7.5 tons of cocaine was later recovered. Four crew members—three Colombians and a Honduran—were detained and brought by the Coast Guard to Miami to face federal charges. (La Tribuna [4], El Heraldo [5], Tegucigalpa, Aug. 2; CBS Miami [6], Aug. 1; Notimex [7], July 30)
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