The outboard motors of a suspected drug smuggling vessel

The outboard motors of a suspected drug smuggling vessel after Coast Guardsmen aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman from Honolulu used disabling fire to stop the fleeing vessel after a three-hour chase 270-miles south of Guatemala in the Eastern Pacific Ocean July 27, 2016. Operation Martillo is a joint, interagency and multinational collaborative effort to deny transnational criminal organizations air and maritime access to the littoral regions of the Central American isthmus. (U.S. Coast Guard photos by Lt. Donnie Brzuska)