USVI-On-Line

Spotted this in the STJ Source.

I have to say that I've seen the Coast Guard demo their drug seizure procedures. Occasionally they like to show off in Charlotte Amalie harbor on holiday week-ends.

It's amazing how fast the boats are and how they use the helicopters and boats to intercept even high speed boats. Pretty cool.

If you're ever on island when they are doing these demos it's a lot of fun to watch. You can ususally see quite a bit from the Greenhouse. Have a beer and watch the action!

In this case it looks like they put that practice to work: http://stjohnsource.com/content/news/lo ... mas-marina

The boats the Coast Guard uses to catch the drug boats are really amazing! I had a chance to ride in one once when a private boat charter I was on stalled out over the reef in Bermuda. A Bermuda Coast Guard (not sure what they actually call them there) came to get John and I in one of those boats. Before he brought us in he told us about some of the ways that they chase down the drug boats, and that he was going to go really fast to show us what his boat could do. He told us to hang on and he was not kidding! I have never even come close to being on anything that fast! I think we were back to the harbour in less than 2 minutes. That crazy ride almost made losing the charter day worth it.

Years ago, when I lived on STX, we'd see USN practicing w/their P3 Orions. Those suckers would fly so darn low, you could read the writing on the fuselage. This would have been in the 80's and early 90's. I also remember a package of cocaine washing up on the shore in STX....it was off of Cane Bay area and whoever found it turned it in, or maybe it was the police who found the package. Lots of stories like that around.