RACE ACROSS THE SEAS: US Forces Board Sanctioned Oil Tanker Veronica III After Chasing It From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean (VIDEO)

US troops boarding the Veronica II – Image by US Department of War

This goes to show the lengths the US Navy is willing to go to enforce the quarantine of sanctioned tankers.

Just think about it: the Caribbean Sea and the Indian Ocean stand at a distance of 12,000–15,000 nautical miles from each other, the equivalent of approximately 13,800–17,300 statute miles (land miles).

It´s a world away.

But that was exactly the distance that the US forces tracked a sanctioned oil tanker.