Things can go wrong at sea.

[William_H]

It started put on Feb 1st when news showed 3 men being rescued from Southern Ocean. Their boat had capsized and they were clinging to a cooler box. They had go the EPIRB and activated it so rescue came, well offshore from Albany. (South West corner of Oz) Great rescue, well done, they said they were fishing.
Only yesterday their boat washed up on the coast. A 7m GRP run about (sports type boat) The boat had in it 364kgs of Meth amphetamines and cocaine in packages. Obviously been out to get a drop from a passing ship. The trailer boat would have been towed back to Perth with cargo. However the boat with little lateral stability made more for high speed in flat water was not up to the swells of Southern Ocean. My guess is that with the extra load and probably driven too fast in swell it broached and capsized. Small mobos are extremely popular here. Surely if I can drive a car I can drive this boat. They get into a lot of trouble. Yes the drug boat was registered to one of the people rescued.
I can imagine the police chief... OK you rescued them now go arrest them... Esky and capsized boat help police make one of WA's biggest ever cocaine seizures

 

[Sandy]

Perhaps a copy of Sod's Law of the Sea by Bill Lucas might be suitable reading for the owner of the boat?

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

This can be paralleled by an incident which happened in West Cork in 2008, when a RIB redezvoused with another vessel and transferred more than 60 bales of cocaine. Unfortunately for those on board, they topped up their fuel tank with diesel instead of petrol and their engine failed as they approached the coast, causing the boat to capsize and all on board, plus the cocaine, ended up in the water. See the Irish Examiner article below:
‘€440m worth of cocaine floating in stormy waters’
The Gardai were reported to have retrieved 61 bales of cocaine, but it's my belief that some of the drugs must have escaped detection and found their way onto the drugs market in Dublin, and a number of deaths occurred as a result of taking damp cocaine.

 

[MisterBaxter]

How would damp cocaine present a health risk?

 

[Alex_Blackwood]

This can be paralleled by an incident which happened in West Cork in 2008, when a RIB redezvoused with another vessel and transferred more than 60 bales of cocaine. Unfortunately for those on board, they topped up their fuel tank with diesel instead of petrol and their engine failed as they approached the coast, causing the boat to capsize and all on board, plus the cocaine, ended up in the water. See the Irish Examiner article below:
‘€440m worth of cocaine floating in stormy waters’
The Gardai were reported to have retrieved 61 bales of cocaine, but it's my belief that some of the drugs must have escaped detection and found their way onto the drugs market in Dublin, and a number of deaths occurred as a result of taking damp cocaine.

North Sea connection (BBC4)??

 

[MisterBaxter]

How would damp cocaine present a health risk?

Asking for a friend, obviously.

 

[pandos]

This can be paralleled by an incident which happened in West Cork in 2008, when a RIB redezvoused with another vessel and transferred more than 60 bales of cocaine. Unfortunately for those on board, they topped up their fuel tank with diesel instead of petrol and their engine failed as they approached the coast, causing the boat to capsize and all on board, plus the cocaine, ended up in the water. See the Irish Examiner article below:
‘€440m worth of cocaine floating in stormy waters’
The Gardai were reported to have retrieved 61 bales of cocaine, but it's my belief that some of the drugs must have escaped detection and found their way onto the drugs market in Dublin, and a number of deaths occurred as a result of taking damp cocaine.

One of them was also a litter lout....(part of the evidence was a label from a prescription bottle that one of them was seen dropping in a field overlooking the bay....)

 

[KompetentKrew]

How would damp cocaine present a health risk?

I suspect it refers to this, and not @Spirit (of Glenans)'s interpretation: What Is a Wet Drug, and Is It Dangerous?

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

I suspect it refers to this, and not @Spirit (of Glenans)'s interpretation: What Is a Wet Drug, and Is It Dangerous?

Here are a couple of samples of what I read:
Woman killed by damp cocaine
Woman (24) died after swallowing damp cocaine with her mother
It's only when I delved deeper, at KompetentKrew's prompting, that I discovered the more sinister aspect of the term "wet drugs".

 

[DangerousPirate]

It started put on Feb 1st when news showed 3 men being rescued from Southern Ocean. Their boat had capsized and they were clinging to a cooler box. They had go the EPIRB and activated it so rescue came, well offshore from Albany. (South West corner of Oz) Great rescue, well done, they said they were fishing.
Only yesterday their boat washed up on the coast. A 7m GRP run about (sports type boat) The boat had in it 364kgs of Meth amphetamines and cocaine in packages. Obviously been out to get a drop from a passing ship. The trailer boat would have been towed back to Perth with cargo. However the boat with little lateral stability made more for high speed in flat water was not up to the swells of Southern Ocean. My guess is that with the extra load and probably driven too fast in swell it broached and capsized. Small mobos are extremely popular here. Surely if I can drive a car I can drive this boat. They get into a lot of trouble. Yes the drug boat was registered to one of the people rescued.
I can imagine the police chief... OK you rescued them now go arrest them... Esky and capsized boat help police make one of WA's biggest ever cocaine seizures

They can't prove that the meth was on the boat before it capsized. Obviously drug cartel rescued the boat, and then sank it again!

 

[William_H]

They can't prove that the meth was on the boat before it capsized. Obviously drug cartel rescued the boat, and then sank it again!

Yeah I am not sure they would have much hope in that defence. One guy was captured in Darwin but the 2 locals seem to be elusive. Probably more afraid of the drug cartel than the police. ol'will

 

[DangerousPirate]

Yeah I am not sure they would have much hope in that defence. One guy was captured in Darwin but the 2 locals seem to be elusive. Probably more afraid of the drug cartel than the police. ol'will

You never know. Saul Goodman could sell it!