Trump Says 2 Survivors of US Strike on Drug Submarine Being Returned to Colombia, Ecuador

The submarine is at least the sixth vessel to come under fire from U.S. forces since September.

A screenshot of the moment before a U.S. military strike on a submersible vessel suspected of carrying narcotics in the Caribbean Sea, on Oct. 16, 2025. @realDonaldTrump via Truth Social

The U.S. government is repatriating two survivors of an Oct. 16 military strike that targeted a submersible vessel in the Caribbean Sea, President Donald Trump announced on Oct. 18.

“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.