Irish police seize yacht with cocaine worth more than £500m
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/07/cocaine-ireland-drugs
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Gale force winds and seven-metre-high waves had hampered the capture of the yacht, Dances With Waves, but this morning it was anchored in an isolated part of the small fishing port of Castletownbere, in County Cork.
A section of the harbour was sealed off as customs and police officers began stripping down the vessel.
Police would also begin questioning three men – two Britons and one man originally from Dublin - who were arrested and brought ashore last night after armed authorities stormed the 60ft cruiser in international waters 150 miles off south-west Cork.
The trio, aged between 44 and 52, had been at sea for more than a month.
The yacht, which is understood to have been registered to a UK port in the past, is laden with cocaine that could total 1.7 tonnes and could be worth as much as 700m euros (£572m). The haul is one of the largest drugs seizures in Europe this year and is expected to eclipse last year's record find off County Cork.
Today's haul was intercepted when authorities launched an operation codenamed Sea Bright after receiving intelligence from European anti-drugs officials. The yacht had been under surveillance since it left the Caribbean.
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Bren589
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Damn thats a lot of coke
- 3 years ago
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Bren589
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blood77
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Well yeah of course it was headed for Ireland, how do you think they make Irish cream? Its an old recipe that coke ripped off.
- 3 years ago
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blood77
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diabolical44
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Ireland?, sounds like they set sail for Miami and got blown off track to me. if they had a boat full of moonshine I'd believe that Ireland was their intended destination.
- 3 years ago
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diabolical44
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wiredbirds
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The LOVE Boat.
- 3 years ago
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wiredbirds
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onechance
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Let me guess, CIA yacht?
- 3 years ago
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onechance
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richjm
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The truth about how cocaine is made might shock some. Gasoline anybody?
There's some more excellent Current short films on cocaine, how it's made, a look at one man's experience with it, how many ordinary citizens in Nicaragua are becoming rich from it and much more at the link below.
http://current.com/search/search.do?indexName=en_uk&renderer=jsp&q=cocai...
- 3 years ago
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richjm
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Sugarnut
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The boat broke down and overturned, dumping the drugs into the sea. Talk about fish getting high AND polluting!
- 3 years ago
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Sugarnut
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mes_s1a
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authorities do my head in how am i ever gonna get any cheap gear lol
- 3 years ago
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mes_s1a
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outtheinside
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they should sell it to finance america's bailout.
- 3 years ago
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outtheinside
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ClareW
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Half a billion pounds worth of drugs?!!! That's madness. I bet that's the most exciting thing that's happened to Castletownbere in a long time.
- 3 years ago
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ClareW
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jessnectar
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OOPSIES! lol...
- 3 years ago
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jessnectar
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phillyharper
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Trouble. Someone's in it.
- 3 years ago
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phillyharper
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BansheesMom
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A yacht and many kilos of coke, sounds like a party. (kidding)
- 3 years ago
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BansheesMom
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DrJayV3
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This wasn't destined for a sleepy Australian judge was it? Did Steve tell you that perchance? Steve.
- 3 years ago
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DrJayV3
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pokesmot
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This all allegedly, they thought it was yeast. Good yeast!
- 3 years ago
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pokesmot
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bansheewail
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The Irish and Cocaine, who knew? The authorities, that's who.
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bansheewail
