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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
But they were washed up in a beach near Jutland in Denmark.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Whether they threw them overboard during that chase or... Well, I mean, it was their own people that were coming to get it.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So obviously they couldn't make the rendezvous for whatever reason.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
You know, I suppose it's a difficult thing to do with two things moving at speed in a wide open ocean.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
which shows you like how difficult it actually is.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
I mean, the one in Fines, it was, you know, it was next best to being an inshore kind of operation in that they were in the estuary.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
So you'd have lights on the shore to be able to kind of guide you.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
You'd be able to see the boat, it was that big anyway.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Whereas if you're in the open ocean, it's a totally different ballgame, like in terms of sophistication.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Yeah, and they would have been back into West Cork, back into Skiverine.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Traugumna Pier was where they were going to, well, that's where they launched from and that's where they came back to.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
And again, the locals got suspicious of these guys.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
The guards appeared on the scene, arrested them.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
You remember the picture of the guys at the camper van, they're all on the ground, you know, the guards had moved in on them.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
And they found, you know, they found kind of
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
you know, all the kind of the necessary equipment needed to make one of these rendezvous.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
You don't need that kind of stuff if you're a fisherman, you know, if you're a sports fisherman.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Yeah, I mean, that's part of it.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Plus, it was probably a handy way to transport people together.
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Episode 1356: How €42m of cocaine travelled from Brazil to the Shannon Estuary
Yeah.