An amazing dive.
Last Thursday, the Channel-North Sea-Atlantic Customs coastguard service seized more than 124 kg of cocaine, hidden under a cargo ship, in the waiting area of the port of La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) .
The drug was discovered by customs divers in a submerged cavity of the hull located 12 meters deep.
Three dives were necessary to extract and reassemble the narcotics.
Unusual detection of a strap coming out of a grid
“The crew of a customs launch had been on a surveillance mission at sea since May 24, when the duty officer asked the unit to check the bulk cargo ship
Great Sea
(196 m), flying the flag of Liberia from the port of Santos (Brazil)” specify the customs.
“This ship was to unload paper pulp at the port of La Rochelle.
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A team of three Customs divers "undertook an assessment of the hull".
After a general inspection, they detected the unusual presence of a strap “coming out of the grid of a
sea chest,
a cavity integrated into the hull of a ship to promote the suction of engine cooling water.
Lighting the cavity revealed glowing bags stored in this space.
A total of 124.28 kg of cocaine, representing a value of more than 7.5 million euros on the resale market, were seized.
The commander, of Chinese nationality, was immediately placed in customs detention.
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