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...Dauntless is armed with a 3-in. gun that fires 3-ft.-long armor-piercing shells, two .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, plus M-16s and handguns. Perhaps its most useful weapon is a gigantic pair of powerful binoculars mounted on the roof of the wheelhouse. The crew calls them...
...Dauntless may stop on the high seas any U.S. vessel or any craft without national markings. A boat outside American waters that is flying a foreign flag can be legally boarded only with the agreement of the boat's own government. In September 1980 the Guard began a resolute new enforcement policy. "The traditional warning shot across the bow never stopped anyone because that was all we could do," says a Coast Guard spokesman. Under today's policy, "if a ship does not heed our warning to stop, our ships can open up with disabling fire. We mean...
Three days after sailing from Miami, Dauntless reaches the Yucatan. The next noon the lookout on the Big Eye reports through the voice tube to his captain: "I've got a sighting...
...Bingo," says Murtagh. Looking through his own binoculars he finds the target, a 68-ft.-long shrimper. It is within Mexico's twelve-mile boundary waters, so Dauntless cannot take up pursuit without authorization from the Coast Guard's 7th District, headquartered in Miami. Murtagh breaks radio silence to ask permission and mutters, "John Paul Jones didn't have to put up with all of this...
Coast guardsmen take over Blue Seas, which cruises back to Miami with Dauntless. The $200,000 vessel will be impounded by U.S. Customs and probably sold at Government auction. The owner, who is currently unknown, is not likely to come forth to claim it. The 40,000 lbs. of marijuana-tightly packed in polyethylene and burlap and divided into roughly 45-lb. bales-and the erstwhile smugglers will be turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Colombian gold, which burns at such high heat that it can ruin conventional incinerators, will most probably become free fuel, stoked into...