Imagine what would happen if you took a Jules Verne tale and threw in Tony Montana as the protagonist. Wait, don’t imagine, because you don’t have to … because it just happened a few weeks back in the middle of the eastern Pacific Ocean on July 18, 200 miles south of Mexico.

You’ve heard of the Yellow Submarine. But what about the Cocaine Submarine? Take a gander of it in the photograph above. That’s what, according to a statement released on Wednesday, the United States Coast Guard seized: a semi-submersible vessel carrying 16,000 pounds of the white powder narcotic, which had an estimated price tag of $181 million.

It gives a whole new connotation to the marine term “blowhole”. Junk fiend whales in the area refused to comment.

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Approximately 4,000 pounds of cocaine, which the team purposely left in the vessel to stabilize it, was lost while towing the vessel so, authorities only seized 12,000 pounds.

Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy said that the U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft notified the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton crew in Alameda, California after spotting something that looked suspicious in the water. The Stratton crew sent out its boarding team to that location, where it found the drug vessel.

According to the branch, this is the largest drug bust “of its kind”.