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Coast Guard Ship Nabs Cocaine, Saves Stranded Jamaicans

By Paul Bowers

Charleston City Paper | October 6, 2011

It was the afternoon of July 13, and Kyle Humphrey, a seaman on the Coast Guard Cutter Gallatin, was nearly finished with his shift on lookout duty. Before leaving the flybridge, he had made one last sweep with the Big Eyes, a pair of mounted binoculars, and spotted the apparition in the wide-open blue.

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