By Calvin Biesecker Through the first nine months of Fiscal Year 2008 United States Government homeland security forces have reported thwarting 62 events involving the use of semi-submersible craft to smuggle drugs into the country, a sharp increase in the use of the relatively stealthy vessels over the past seven years. Of note, on Sept. 13, a Coast Guard law enforcement team detached to the Navy's USS McInerny frigate operating in the Eastern Pacific Ocean seized a stateless 59- foot…
DHS, Navy Say Drug Smugglers Increasingly Turning To Semi-Submersible Craft
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