U.S. Coast Guardsmen assigned to the patrol boat USCGC Sitkinak (WPB 1329) unload bales of cocaine at U.S. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, Fla., Nov. 7, 2013. A total of 20 bales of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of $19 million were seized in the Caribbean Sea in support of Operation Martillo. 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.