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miniboat, part of the Columbia River Maritime Museum's miniboat program, has fetched up in an exotic location while on its way to Japan. This one, S/V Liberty, launched by students from Wyâeast Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, in the spring, was off to an inauspicious start: It crash-landed. It was repaired and relaunched in July. This time, after over 100 days at sea, the Liberty landed 4,500 miles away on Nov. 4 on the Ailuk Atoll. Located in the Marshall Islands, the tiny atoll has a population of only 357. Amazingly, even after crossing a reef before landing, the Libert...
Marshall 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,...
Boat with 649kg of cocaine washes up in Marshall Islands AKIPRESS.COM - Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. It's thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending possibly months out at sea, BBC reports. The 649kg (1,430lb) of cocaine have an estimated street value of $80m (£61m). Drugs often wash ashore on the remote Pacific archipelago, but last week's discovery set a new record. Police said the drugs were incinerated on Tuesday, apart from two packets, which h...
BBC News Published image captionOcean currents often bring debris - and drugs - to the Marshall Islands Police in the Marshall Islands have found their biggest drug haul ever, in an abandoned boat washed ashore on a small atoll. It's thought the vessel might have drifted across the Pacific Ocean from Latin America, spending possibly months out at sea. Drugs often wash ashore on the remote Pacific archipelago, but last week's discovery set a new record. Police said the drugs were incinerated on Tuesday, apart from two packets, which have been sent to the US Drug Enforcement Administration f...