By Leslie Berestein, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:24 p.m.
A drug-smuggling vessel spotted 46 miles off the coast of San Diego County by a U.S. Navy helicopter last week wound up out of fuel and shipwrecked on the coast of one of the Channel Islands off Santa Barbara.
On the night of March 4, a Navy helicopter spotted a panga, a traditional fishing vessel used in Mexico, far out at sea off Point Loma. U.S. Customs and Border Protection vessels joined the search, but it was called off early the next morning after searchers lost sight of the boat.
The afternoon of March 6, Customs and Border Protection officers in a helicopter sighted fuel canisters and boat wreckage along the coast of Santa Rosa Island, about 26 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara.
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