Coast Guard offloads almost 4 tons of cocaine with estimated street value of $143.5 million

CBS NEWS ^ | JUNE 15, 2021 / 7:42 AM | CBS NEWS

[deport]

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 7,500 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades on Monday, CBS Miami reports. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma removed the bales, which had an estimated street value of $143.5 million.

The coke — more than 3.75 tons of it — was seized in three interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

[Vigilanteman]

Makes perfect sense if you are mapping the Pacific Ocean only. But if you do a typical map which splits the world near the international dateline, then the Western Pacific Ocean is to the west of that line, starting with the Bering Straight and working south to the Aleutians and points further south and the Eastern Pacific Ocean works starts with Siberia and works to the Kurile Islands (Chishima Reito in Japanese) and points further south.

Ironically, the world map published most commonly published in Japan splits the world along roughly the Ural Mountain Range and has the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic, in the center of the map. What we would call the Middle East on our most common version of the map would be on the far eastern edge of the Japan version and the Indian subcontinent would be on the western edge of theirs.

So it is a matter of perspective.

[alternatives?]

Seems like a dolly can carry a lot more weight than by hand.

[Chode]

again, more backs than carts

and 50% of the time, the carts would be empty

it’s really that simple

[ibheath]

Because that is the fastest way short of a crane to/from the deck to load/unload on a ship. Even then it would require a chain to move it to the deck. That is coming from an interior space with multiple watertight doors and hatches that are not wheel friendly.

[alternatives?]

I could understand in some situations it would be best. But in the picture going down a ramp with a dolly seems faster.

[Honest Nigerian]

But the Big Guy still gets his 10%. Right?

[pas]

Not sure what this comment has to do with your claim the coke originated in China