Mexican Navy

I can't say that I have.

We worked with the Mexican Navy, which was fascinating.

And then I was over in Dubai doing armed security over there.

And we got to work with the Gurkhas, who were pretty badass.

A man reading Spanish marine weather for the southern Gulf of Mexico.

I first saw a report of this from Rafael Rodriguez in Cadena de Equis that Mexican hams say it is a Mexican amateur out of band and reading official weather reports from Boca del Rio Veracruz and the Yucatan and sometimes also from the Mexican Navy, a service for fishing boats in the region.

Neither I nor Rafael heard an ID, but the Mexican hams say it's Pedregal Radio on the air daily or nearly so.

So if a ham goes out of bed and plays rock music, we call it a pirate.

Mexico is ramping up its fight against a record surge of seaweed that's been threatening its tourism industry for months.

The Mexican Navy is now using satellites and drones to track massive patches of brown seaweed, then sending specialized ships to scoop it up before it reaches shore.

From January through September, the Navy collected more than double the amount from the same period last year.

And even still, that's less than a third of what's been removed from beaches, where the seaweed rots, producing a rotten egg smell and potentially harmful gas.

The party was thrown at a private house and Arturo had invited the popular singer Ramon Ayala to entertain his guests.

But the party was interrupted when an elite special forces division of the Mexican Navy, acting on a tip, raided the house.

Arturo managed to escape as his gunmen held the Marines at bay.

About a week later, on December 17th, Arturo was laid up at a second-floor apartment of the Altitudes Luxury Condo Development in Cuanavaca with several bodyguards, though not including his favorite bodyguard and most trusted confidant, the Barbie.

Again, the Mexican Navy, acting on intelligence they had gathered from the first raid, managed to track him down and staged an assault on his apartment.

Arturo and his men saw them swarming the complex from their second-story perch and opened fire.

Over the course of about 90 minutes, 200 Mexican Marines stormed the Altitudes Condo complex, even rappelling into the scene from helicopters.

Some survivors suffered shark bites.

Both the Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy, along with the Mexican Navy, searched the waters with helicopters, planes, and multiple vessels.

The Mexican consulate in San Diego said all those rescued were Mexican nationals.

It's unclear where the doomed vessel was heading when it capsized.