A US Coast Guard cutter on Monday unloaded a record haul of illegal drugs that, if it had made it to the streets, would represent around 23 million deadly doses of cocaine, the service said.

The cutter Hamilton offloaded about 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, around 30 miles north of Miami, in what is “the largest quantity of drugs offloaded in Coast Guard history,” a Coast Guard statement said. The total value of the seized drugs was put at $473 million.

That’s “enough to fatally overdose the entire population of the state of Florida, underscoring the immense threat posed by transnational drug trafficking to our nation,” Rear Adm. Adam Chamie said in the statement.

The seizures were made in 19 separate interdictions in the

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