In the last several years, law agencies have also began using speedboats of the Cigarette type, some of which can go 80 miles an hour.
The narcos use jets and helicopters, speedboats, and even submarines.
For travelling to and from each of the Gilis, locals usually use motorised boats and speedboats.
American forces encountered insurgents transporting and unloading weapons using speedboats and opened fire, destroying the boats.
Because of loosening travel restrictions, independent-minded tourists can even dispense with Mekong guides altogether and use local cargo boats or speedboats.
When the Coast Guard started using speedboats to catch the smugglers, garvey pilots responded by improving their engines, meeting occasionally for informal racing.
The lonely planet says that foreigners are not allowed to use speedboats.
The third team would use speedboats rented in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the coast of Morocco.
Israeli forces raided the flotilla on the night of 30-31 May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, boarding the ships using speedboats and helicopters.
Smugglers use speedboats, rowboats, rubber dinghies and anything else that floats to spirit across their goods, almost always under cover of darkness.