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Coast Guard Tests New Fleeing Boat Device.

The Coast Guard's Research and Development Center in Groton, Conn., recently completed full-scale testing of the Boat Trap, an air-deployed vessel entanglement system designed to safely disable vessels attempting to flee with drugs or migrants onboard. The Boat Trap is a 22-inch long by 13-inch wide cylinder dropped from a helicopter that bursts into an X-shaped net in front of a fleeing vessel, entangling the boat's propeller. Successful full scale tests were completed recently at the Coast Guard's Special Mission Training Center at Camp Lejeune, N.C., using an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Atlantic City.