Maritime Search and Security Operations Team

Black The Maritime Search and Security Operations Team is the special forces command of the Turkish Coast Guard.

Formerly named DAGOT was abolished and later became SÖH Maritime Search and Security Operations Team also called the Coast Guard Special Operations Team as well.

They are in charge of providing security in search and rescue operations in the open seas and organizing drug and terrorist operations in line with the orders given.

They receive training in SCUBA diving, parachuting, combat swimming, ship capture and confiscation, and special operations.

The operation, named Operation Albatross, resulted in the seizure of 13.6 tons of cannabis and the capture of 9 Syrian nationals aboard a Bolivia-flagged ship, the Jaudi, which was sailing from west of the island of Cyprus to the Libyan coast.