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10 Loy. Mar. L.J. 493 (2011-2012)
Drug Trafficking on the High Seas: How a Consolidation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act and the Drug Trafficking Vessel Interdiction Act and a Statutory Nexus Requirement Will Improve the War on Maritime Drug Trafficking

handle is hein.journals/loymarlj10 and id is 517 raw text is: DRUG TRAFFICKING ON THE HIGH SEAS: HOW A CONSOLIDATION OF THE MARITIME DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT ACT AND THE DRUG TRAFFICKING VESSEL INTERDICTION ACT AND A STATUTORY NEXUS REQUIREMENT WILL IMPROVE THE WAR ON MARITIME DRUG TRAFFICKING Arthur J. Cook III* I. INTRODUCTION The trafficking of narcotics on both navigable waterways and the high seas has been an elusive and challenging foe in the United States' arduous war on drugs. Improved radar and navigation systems have proven effective in the interception of drug traffickers on the surface of the water. Accordingly, these traffickers have gone beneath the ocean's surface with the increased manufacture and use of submersibles and self-propelled semi-submersible vessels capable of carrying up to ten tons of cocaine from the western coast of Colombia to various transshipment points farther north.' These vessels are almost impossible to detect using conventional methods such as sonar and radar because they are constructed primarily of fiberglass and wood and they are painted various shades of blue to camouflage themselves.2 If discovered, the crews of these vessels, utilizing the natural ballast system created by weight of the * J.D. Candidate 2013, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. 1. Hugh Bronstein, Another cocaine-laden submarine sinks of Colombia, http://www.reuters.comarticle/2008/01/03/us-colombia-drugs- idUSNO325244420080103 (last visited May 6, 2012). 2. POSTURE STATEMENT OF GENERAL DOUGLAS M. FRASER, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE COMMANDER, UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND BEFORE THE 112TH HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE (Mar. 30, 2011), http://www.southcom.millnewsroom/Documents/SOUTHCOM%202011%20Posture% 20Statement.pdf; see also ECONOMIST, Waving Not Drowning, (May 1, 2008) http://www.economist.com/node/11294435?storyid=l 1294435. 493

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