William OBrien

Wow this guy found 68 pounds, any idea where in the keys this was?
https://www.fox13news.com/news/snork...f-florida-keys

vulcan

There were 69 lbs but who would know but him and whoever lost it.

weatherconch

It was cocaine. Just north of Channel 5 bridge.

PJHoffnet

I always called marijuana bales square groupers ... what do you call a bale of cocaine? A Square Beluga?

mig888

Square Blowfish

Trierarch

I've always been curious what to do in these situations after you contact the authorities, I guess the smart thing to do would be to leave it in the water and let the feds collect it all versus pulling it out of the water.

20biminitwist

The best thing to do is not even look at it. I trolled around the one I found and caught a shit load of fish until I made too tight of a turn and snagged the damn thing on the left long.
Realized what is was and Realized in minutes it was being watched from high above.

Keep on fishing and go about your merry way.
"I SEE NOTHING"

Advice from a guy that found a big brick of bugger sugar.

meritmat

Im waiting for Paul Harvey to say and know (the rest of the story)

weatherconch

This is definitely the best advice. I know someone that found one offshore about 15 years ago. He called it in and the CG asked him to stay with it until they got there.

signmansez

Yea, had a buddy that found one years ago fishing out of Port Canaveral, called it in to the coasties , they told him to remain on scene until they arrive. They were told to keep it in sight and not to touch it.
Helicopter arrived first and circled for an hour or so until the orange RIB showed up. They pulled the bale out of the water, boarded his boat, searched through everything.
When they were done with they were instructed to head back to Port Canaveral where another group of coasties was standing by to perform a more thorough examination of the vessel and persons and fill out a mountain of paperwork!

Interesting day to say the least and a great tale to tell but he told them don't ever expect him to call one in again!

20biminitwist

It will be brief as I have shared it on here before.

It made the paper in the keys.

Snagged it and backed down to save a lure. I hooked it good. Powder obvious and I called it in to USCG. A falcon USCG jet dropped out of the sky right on top of us within 2 minutes like a frigate bird on a floating yellow tail. Then, a big cutter and 2 go fast custom boats appeared within minutes..

It was a known drop from a mother ship and they were watching and waiting for the pick up boat.

I was tempted but my retirement plan did not include a 8 by 12 cell at that time.

I have found a lot of crazy things over the years way off shore. I fish the hell out of it and keep going and I SEE NOTHING unless it's a raft with lives at stake. That find cost me 3 hours of sitting still 30 miles offshore of Marathon when I found the refugees.

signmansez

A bale of Coke and they are on you in minutes, people floating for days on a raft and we'll get there when we can

20biminitwist

They actually deployed a chopper launched from a big cutter. Requested I stay on station until a rapid response vessel arrived. The chopper assessed and then left and he was there in 30 minutes. We stayed through the entire process. The cutter showed up and took all of them off the raft via a launched craft from the cutter who was hauling ass to the scene.

It was right in the middle of the main shipping lane about 25 miles off Marathon.

The last correspondence on the VHF from the cutter to USCG station Marathon was to put the raft on the Bottom.

They rolled up and blew the thing to pieces. It was impressive.

The Irony of this entire thing it was the fourth of July. Independence Day!

Resinhead

Filet and release is the best method.

burningdaylight

Bales of cocaine are known as “white lobster”.

There are people on the Atlantic side of Nicaragua that make a living finding and returning lost cargo to the smugglers.

http://content.time.com/time/world/a...063261,00.html

mikeloew

Here is a good story about why you should never investigate it and just move along as you saw nothing.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/c...-years-9234920

CaptainRobin

401K

CaptainRobin

Crazy story...sad situation for the kids particularly

oceanluvr30

My lucky day

LWLoadie

Bales of weed floated up all the time back in the late '70's. A friend found one and unloaded it and bought a new 21' Seacraft, we caught a lot of fish on that boat. I know a lot of guys who were cops back then and they hauled a lot of bales off the sand. Keep in mind there were still lots of undeveloped shoreline back then, not all condos and NO video surveillance