permission to board.  Then, Jeffreys questioned the crew, who spoke only Spanish, through a Spanish-speaking coast guardsman.


3
Jeffreys was told that the captain of the MS had debarked earlier--taking with him the ship's registration and papers, that the crew members were Colombian, that the MS had come from Columbia, and that they were headed for Haiti.  After receiving permission from Haiti, the Coast Guard boarded the MS, arrested the six crew members, and searched the vessel.  No cocaine was found in plain view.  A "destructive search" conducted the next day revealed cocaine hidden in the wall of the MS.  The amount of cocaine seized (from the packages thrown overboard and those found on the MS) was 316 kilograms.


4
Each of the six crew members wasMS then set sail with Carmargo and Defendants as its only crew.  Ramirez-Fajardo was the captain, Ortiz-Cotoa the mechanic, Sanchez-Martinez the helmsman and Martinez-Rios and Castaneda-Marin the crew members.  When the Coast Guard helicopter flew over the MS, Ramirez-Fajardo remarked "they had caught us" and ordered Castaneda-Marin and Martinez-Rios to help him throw the packages of cocaine overboard.  Also thrown overboard were some maps, a firearm, and the fiberglass-working tools.  Carmargo-Silvera also testified that Ramirez-Fajardo instructed the crew about what story to tell to the Coast Guard


2
 A vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States includes a "vessel without nationality" and a "vessel located in the territorial waters of another nation, where the nation consents to the enforcement of the United States