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Updated: 1:43 PM PST, December 18, 2020
No passengers were on board, and authorities believed the ship may have been drifting around the Pacific Ocean for a year or two.
A small ghost boat washed up on the shores of the Marshall Islands last week carrying no passengers except nearly 1,500 pounds of cocaine. The 18-feet-long fiberglass boat was discovered on a beach at Ailuk Atoll filled only with about $80 million worth of the narcotics.
The remote coral island, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is home to only about 400 people, and a resident reportedly discovered the boat last week, Radio New Zealand reported. Residents tried to move the boat onto the beach themselves but it was too heavy, so they looked inside a large compartment underneath the deck of the boat.
United-statesAiluk-atollMarshall-islands-generalMarshall-islandsNew-zealandMajuroAmericaPacific-oceanCnnRadio-new-zealandCentral-americaஒன்றுபட்டது-மாநிலங்களில்Marshall Islands police have found the Pacific nation’s largest-ever haul of cocaine in an abandoned boat that washed up on a remote atoll after drifting on the high seas.
Attorney General Richard Hickson said the 5.5-metre (18-foot) fibreglass vessel was found at Ailuk atoll last week with 649 kilogrammes (1,430 pounds) of cocaine hidden in a compartment beneath the deck.
The haul is estimated to be worth more than $80m, according to media reports.
Hickson said the vessel most likely drifted across the Pacific from Central or South America.
“It could have been drifting for a year or two,” he said.
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This December 15, 2020 photo shows a box filled with 2.2-pound (1-kg) bricks of cocaine found on a boat that washed up in the Marshall Islands. (CNN)A small, unassuming boat washed up on a remote island in the Pacific last week carrying no passengers but loaded with around 1,430 pounds (649 kg) of cocaine.
The 18-foot (5.4-meter) fiberglass vessel was discovered on a beach at Ailuk Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of coral atolls and volcanic islands between the Philippines and Hawaii.
The cocaine came sealed and wrapped in blocks, according to the Marshall Islands police, who then collected and destroyed most of the packages by burning them in an incinerator. Photos of the blocks show stained, yellowing plastic, stamped with a red logo that bears the letters KW.
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