They rescued three foreign tourists who were adrift off the coast of La Guajira

The Colombian Navy reported on Tuesday morning that they managed to rescue three crew members from a Dutch-flagged boat, who were left adrift on the high seas 2.8 nautical miles off the Caribbean coast, at the height of Riohacha, in La Guajira.

According to the naval force, the boat named “Libery C”, which had sailed from Santa Marta to the Dominican Republic, was left adrift after having mechanical failures during its journey through the department of La Guajira.

The emergency became known after the Santa Marta International Navy reported to the National Navy that a boat was adrift.

The three foreign tourists who were rescued, two Dutch and one Australian, were attended by the naval force, who checked the state of health of each of the ship's crew, and then transported them to a safe dock. According to the National Navy, one of the citizens had to be transferred to a medical center, because he said he was ill.

Following the rescue of foreign citizens, the naval force indicated that it will continue to carry out maritime patrols in the area, in order to ensure the safety of the crew of the vessels mobilizing through the area.

Likewise, the Navy called on “the community to comply with maritime safety regulations, especially the use of a life jacket and to report any emergency on telephone line 146 or channel 16 VHF Marino”.

In other news, on the morning of Monday, March 21, the National Navy announced that, in three anti-drug operations carried out in the Colombian Caribbean and Pacific, they managed to seize 5.4 tons of cocaine from the Gulf Clan.

In parallel to this operation, the Navy seized 438 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride in the municipality of Bajo Baudó, Chocó, during a search and control patrol of a suspicious vessel that had run aground five nautical miles from the town of Playa Nueva.

The latest operation, which was carried out on the island of San Andrés, in cooperation with the Colombian Air Force and the United States Southern Command, resulted in the seizure of 3,382 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, which were transported by five people on a go fast boat.

According to the National Navy, thanks to these three operations, it was possible to affect the Gulf Clan's finances with the loss of more than 188 million dollars. In addition, the naval force stressed that more than 13 million doses of cocaine were also prevented from being distributed nationally and internationally.

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