The United States Coast Guard is tasked with some bizarre missions. Missing persons. Cocaine submarines. Sharks. Good sailors. And bad sailors.

AND, according to a story out of the Sun Sentinel in Florida, they’re also burdened with assisting bad sailors and their devilish ruses — like former U.S. Navy vet and Boca Raton financial advisor Richard Winsor Ohrn, 46, who pleaded his guilt on Monday to “communicating a false distress message.”

To put it bluntly, the man tried to fake his own death last year. In doing so, he cost the U.S. Coast Guard more than $1 million — a bill from their fruitless search after his abandoned boat was found by a samaritan yacht.

His plea agreement states that he has to pay back the money he robbed from the USCG — no easy task when his assets barely amount to half the sum. Lucky for him, he might dodge prison time, and skate with probation.

According to the Sunshine State newspaper’s report, the former sailor decided to fake his disappearance during a “mental health crisis” — an episode that coincided with allegations that he was robbing his older clients blind. His employer at the time of said crimes, Wells Fargo, ditched him back in 2012. Ohrn was also stripped of his licenses to practice his brokering.

More from the Sun Sentinel:

A passing yacht crew discovered his rented SeaRay 185 Sport vessel anchored and abandoned in the water six miles off Lake Worth Inlet on March 31, 2015.

Investigators initially thought it was a crime scene because blood was smeared around the vessel and a pair of broken eyeglasses were on board.

The Coast Guard launched a three-day air and sea rescue effort that cost more than $1 million, according to court records, but found nothing useful before ending the search on April 2, 2015.

Ohrn showed up in Palm Beach County 10 days later. Under questioning, Ohrn “admitted to faking his disappearance, stating that he decided to ‘just go away’ due to his anxiety,” according to his plea agreement.

Investigators found out he had stayed at an unfurnished apartment in Albany, Ga., which was rented under his nephew’s name. He also admitted he had rented the SeaRay and towed an inflatable vessel he bought, using a friend’s account, out to sea.

Turns out, however, that the sheriff’s office was onto the disgraced financial advisor all along. They’d apparently been watching him mount up his items in prep for his disappearance long before he ditched his deliberately bloodied SeaRay.