Drug smugglers started throwing bales of cocaine out of their vessel into the sea to try and evade capture.
A Royal Navy warship has seized £200m worth of cocaine after chasing down drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea.HMS Trent was alerted to potential smugglers by a United States maritime patrol aircraft.
The crew of HMS Trent then had to recover the drugs thrown overboard, and the extensive search operation ran throughout the night.HMS Trent has been deployed in the Caribbean Sea since December to hunt drug smugglers. Defence Secretary, Grant Shapps said: "I’d like to congratulate the crew of HMS Trent for this latest bust, but also for their incredible work over the previous 5 months, seizing large amounts of drugs and disrupting global drug networks.
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