Piracy & Crime (Incidents, Security)

A Coast Guard Station San Juan boat crew rescues two individuals after they jumped from the barge, Charlotte Bridge, while it was being towed into San Juan Harbor by the tugboat, Southern Dawn, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec. 29, 2025.
Aftermath of US military strike on drug smuggling boat, killing two men
A French Navy frigate and a dhow during Combined Task Force 150's counter-drug operations in the Arabian Sea in late 2025
Screengrab of video showing drug running boat before being struck by US forces on November 15
Aegean Sea
A foreign tanker was seized by Iran in the Gulf of Oman
The Togolese-registered freighter Hong Tai 58 is suspected of dragging the third submarine cable between Taiwan and Pengzhou
Thirty-three bales of contraband sit on the US Coast Guard cutter USCGC Active’s flight deck from an interdiction of a suspected drug smuggling vessel while patrolling the Eastern Pacific Ocean, November 25, 2025. Active’s crew seized more than 3,300 pounds of cocaine and detained three suspected drug smugglers during the operation.
Centuries during the boarding action by the USCG
The US seizes the tanker Skipper off Venezuela
HAV Dolphin
On December 22, 2025, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile narco vessel
The US seizes the tanker Skipper off Venezuela
Centuries during the boarding action by the USCG
Adler Ro-Ro
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Adler Ro-Ro
venezuela guyana colombia suriname caribbean map
Centuries during the boarding action by the USCG
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) map
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