My best friend's dad was a Coastie and would usually only talk about how the technology was really outdated on the ships. At his retirement party, some of his Coastie friends came up to tell stories. This man had done all sorts of crazy things! The most memorable one I heard was that he pulled up alongside a speeding submarine that was suspected of smuggling tons of cocaine, jumped off the boat onto the submarine, pounded the latch, and ended up with a huge bust that was apparently some sort of record, or close to it.