Diver's body with more than 50kg of cocaine found on Newcastle port riverbank

[chris kippax]

Looks like he was found around this area?? You can see a small portion of the heavy industry in the harbour area.

After all the rain the East Coast has had I imagine the viz in the Hunter river to be minimal like <1m. He had definately done his navigation speciality. Can only imagine if a bulk tanker started up and began moving out with its various tugs. The tide may have brought him undone aswell, I imagine swimming with that cargo would be tricky with zero current.

He was a physcho, no doubt about it. Must of been a good pay on offer.

 

[John the Pom]

Affluent westerners take a lot of drugs, but rarely seem to connect their activities with all of the associated crime and misery it causes. The couriers who end up in gaol, or hospital, or dead, are always the small fish. The people behind the operation are safe at home counting their money.

 

[clownfishsydney]

no lift bag or scooter?

None found it seems.

 

[chillyinCanada]

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[Kay Dee]

Affluent westerners take a lot of drugs, but rarely seem to connect their activities with all of the associated crime and misery it causes. The couriers who end up in gaol, or hospital, or dead, are always the small fish. The people behind the operation are safe at home counting their money.

Well it seems if at least one of the Mr Biggers has been apprehended (and now probably counting the cockroaches in he cell, as opposed to his expected money).

Superyacht operator arrested allegedly trying to flee country after drug drop death

A Queensland superyacht tour operator has been arrested during an alleged attempt to flee the country, after a diver’s death alerted police to a large cocaine shipment in Newcastle.

www.smh.com.au

 

[lowwall]

Scubaboard doesn't really have a subforum for major crime committed incidentally involving the death of a criminal on a rebreather during same.

Well technically you do have an appropriate forum:

Commercial Divers

Hard Hat, Saturation and all other types of commercial diving.

scubaboard.com

 

[Kay Dee]

The latest.

50kg of cocaine made its way into community after fatal drug drop as police hunt pair

Detectives have released images of two people police believe will be able to help with their investigation after a diver, who washed up unconscious in Newcastle this week, died.

www.smh.com.au

EXCERPT: "Critchlow said early examinations suggested the diver had experienced complications with his breathing apparatus, which resulted in him drowning."

Reads like a rebreather induced death to me.

 

[Pressurehead]

More on this story : Police allege dead cocaine diver was smuggled from Indonesia

 

[Searcaigh]

Hang on, the guy they arrested was already inside doing time for something else

"Strike force detectives and AFP officers yesterday arrested a 62-year-old man in the Grafton Correctional Facility on the New South Wales north coast".

 

[Jafo19D]

Is there a PADI cert for smuggling?