HMCS Edmonton returns from Operation CARIBBE 2023 | Go Bold

Описание: Go Bold was present to see HMCS Edmonton (MM 703), a Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), return from a two-and-a-half-month deployment off the Pacific coast of Central America, under Operation CARIBBE. The ship deployed from 13 February to 28 April 2023 and returned to its home port at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.
 
Operation CARIBBE is Canada’s contribution to the U.S.-led Enhanced Counternarcotics Operations under Joint Interagency Task Force South, which is responsible for conducting interagency and international detection, monitoring operations, and facilitating the interdiction of illicit trafficking.

HMCS Edmonton liaised with a United States Coast Guard (USCG) Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET); USCG cutters Active (WMEC-618) and Benjamin Bottoms (WPC-1132); a USCG helicopter and a maritime patrol aircraft in an operation that seized a vessel ferrying narcotics on April 8, 2023.

HMCS Edmonton in partnership with the two United States Coast Guard Ships intercepted the drug smuggling vessel, seizing large quantities of narcotics off the coast of Mexico. The seized narcotics are estimated to be 755 kilograms of cocaine.

We had the pleasure to have an exclusive chat with Lieutenant-Commander Tyler Smith, the Commanding Officer of HMCS Edmonton, to discuss the deployment and the interdiction of the drug smuggling vessel.

Welcome home HMCS Edmonton.

Go Bold!

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