Solving Mystery of Cocaine Island Found in the South Pacific 🦈

A mysterious island in the South Pacific was made from bricks of cocaine held up by buoys. There was 3.5 tons of cocaine. That’s a crazy coke float. Three men were also rescued from the sea, allegedly having the same idea. Let me tell you about it.
The Mob Reporter here with news on the New Zealand navy’s recovery of 81 bales of coke, one of the biggest ever seizures for the country, worth $318 million US dollars, and, days later, of three Australian men rescued after they were forced to abandon their damaged boat. Not long after, bricks of coke washed ashore and police found their capsized boat, stuffed with more bricks. That humiliating caper, that seemed to have the very same idea as the mysterious island. Maybe this can be the origin story for #CocaineShark.
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Let me tell you why it was just riding the waves, where I think it was found and what happened with the guys clinging to a cooler. The New Zealand find had bricks decorated by four-leaf clovers and the Batman logo. It was likely dumped in the waters near many of the lower Polynesian islands, such as Bora Bora, the Cook Islands, Samoa, over to Fiji. Police estimated it was enough coke to supply all of Australia for a year. It is more than is typically sold in New Zealand over 30 years.
EN ESPAÑOL:
Una isla misteriosa en el Pacífico Sur estaba hecha de ladrillos de cocaína sostenidos por boyas, que pesaban 3,5 toneladas. Eso es un loco flotador de coca cola. Tres hombres también fueron rescatados del mar, supuestamente teniendo la misma idea. Déjame contarte sobre eso.
The Mob Reporter aquí con noticias sobre la recuperación por parte de la Marina de Nueva Zelanda de 81 pacas de coque, una de las incautaciones más grandes jamás realizadas en el país, con un valor de $ 318 millones de dólares estadounidenses, y, días después, de tres hombres australianos rescatados después de que se vieron obligados a abandonar su barco dañado. No mucho después, los ladrillos de coca llegaron a la costa y la policía encontró su bote volcado, lleno de más ladrillos. Esa cabriola humillante, que parecía tener la misma idea que la isla misteriosa.
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Music is “Open the Box” by Geographer // “Revolutionary” by Causmic // “Rich in the 80s” by Divkid // and “Rewired” by The Whole Other
Cook Island by Rv, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Bora Bora by Samuel Etienne - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Samoa by Teinesavaii - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Fiji by Jaejay77 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
New Zealand to South America map by Tentotwo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... South Pacific map by Night w - includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Island rain shower and fishing boat by Videvo; Cargo ship video by Alexander Bobrov, water shots by Rostislav Uzunov, opening package video by MART PRODUCTION, Life jacket photo by Max Laurell, Ocean bubble video by Taz Eex; Underwater bubbles video by Kindel Media all at Pexels.
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[@JoeRogansGutBiome]

We need more cocaine mob reporter you know we are obsessed and addicted to coke stories

[@JMac-]

Not to be sniffed at.

[@TheMobReporter]

I hope so.

[@aaronrientsma9552]

He's early, work will understand. I have to watch this!

[@elizabethraworth64]

Mob stories while I knit. Doesn't get any better. Thanks.

[@TheMobReporter]

A knitter! I don't think I have tons of fans who are knitters, that's terrific, ER. Thanks for letting me know. Unless -- wait -- is "knit" some slang term for something that I'm missing??

[@dertythegrower]

@@TheMobReporter 🤣💯

[@phraydedjez]

@@TheMobReporter no but crochet is lol

[@elizabethraworth64]

@@TheMobReporter no slang . Just knitting a simple wool hat. Keeps me out of trouble.

[@TheMobReporter]

I did a video not too long ago about fabric imbued with liquid cocaine being smuggled internationally.

[@birdflipper]

Batman's not going to be happy about this!

[@EmperorNerox]

Cost of doing business they make it up on next few hauls

[@bullitt7544]

Great Report Mob Reporter.

[@phraydedjez]

oh wtf, I seen the title of this video and yelled out to my housemate ''pack your bag, i know where we are going on holidays'' lol

[@martin3203]

Thanks

[@TheMobReporter]

Thank you M. Very helpful and appreciated. Tak skal du have.

[@EmperorNerox]

Hope some fisherman found some of the bales ! Makes me sick when the coast guard gets it .

[@luke125]

Me too

[@kevingyurecz]

Yea, same here

[@jaykoke-en1bi]

Yep me too

[@randoir1863]

How does a group of drug sellers fuck up so bad that you lose that amount of drugs at sea ? I mean I know you try and keep a low profile amd not rent out a large boat to retrieve such cargo but CMON MAN !!!

[@Heyoka222]

Well there goes my Amazon order

[@robertdejonge3607]

Thanks for posting.... 😉

[@matthewbaxter8558]

Four leave clover logo. I wonder who sent that shipment?

[@rrek7]

I do love a good “coke float” 😂

[@M77982]

A New Reality Show "Cocaine Island"

[@CanadianTommy]

Thanks for another great video!!!!

[@bear1245]

Nice work sussing out the distance travelled 👍🏻

[@joelmartin5220]

You always got the best info.

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks, JM.

[@karlashdown5228]

In another twist i was talking with my father about the Kahu bust, My dad served in the RNZN for over 30 years & said there's a good chance he spent time on the ship before it was tendered out as this is the exact type of boat Hydrographic Surveyors used around NZ & the Pacific Islands. Great story as always much Respect to The Mob Reporter from NZ.

[@thodstagshorn1198]

My kind of island, never want to leave.

[@beaumershon3066]

I live in Costa Rica. I personally know someone who found 400 kilos washed up on a beach here. Lets just say, they don't need to work anymore, as they knew who to call and were "rewarded" quite well... This was in 2001 or so... And they still live off the "reward funds." And no, the police where not the ones called. lol

[@youtubeuser206]

damn no kidding i wish i could be that lucky.. ive combed the coast every day for 19 years 😂

[@beaumershon3066]

@MakoIsHere I'm always walking beaches here on the lookout!!! But there is a lot of C.R. coastguard and US Navy that patrol the waters offshore in my area. lol

[@beaumershon3066]

@MakoIsHere I am a contractor here, and I did some work for the couple that found the bales. They showed me photos of them back then, with hundreds of bales all down the beach. Was crazy to see them sitting on bales as the waves crash and bales for as far ass you could see. Obviously way younger in the photos. The crazy part was when they paid me for the work, they paid in cash with $100 bills from the late 1990"s. It was a $55,000 job I did for them. This was in 2017 when I worked for them. All cash job with old $100 bills. Was crazy working with them. Wild old couple that now own like 20 rental houses here also.

[@beaumershon3066]

@MakoIsHere Was just strange to see that many $100 bills printed in about 1995 ish I worked for them in 2017. $55,00 remodel job all paid in old bills just add more to the story!

[@kingkong81icloud]

I bet he had a brick of it , I would take as much as I could and hand some to the cartels to look good an before some kids find

[@Ash-qy6hl]

Thank you! mob report for the videos learn a lot of information and understand a lot of things

[@oneperson7013]

Lends new meaning to a "coke float". Here come da' fizz, here come da' fizz.

[@peterestrada9420]

You can Always, Always, ALWAYS, count on The Mob Reporter, to come up with TheGoods‼️ I “feen” in between episodes 😬🤣🤙

[@Trav81888]

ahhhh TMR….maybe not No1 in the charts, but most definitely Mo.1 in our hearts!

[@TheMobReporter]

It’d be great to be both, T8

[@RazorRedPresa]

When you said "3 people rescued with the same idea" I thought you meant with the same idea as me going for a cruise looking for cocaine islands!

[@TheMobReporter]

Ah, yeah, I can see that now. No, they allegedly were off to meet another load of cocaine left for them somewhere.

[@RazorRedPresa]

@@TheMobReporter Did you do the Explore With Us interrogation series?

[@moranmichael9226]

My brother what good one!

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks, MM.

[@zareththealchemist8982]

I can see the title of the Hollywood film now - "Cocaine Shark"

[@69dblcab]

Always great reports. Thank you.

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks, 69.

[@TheMobReporter]

That just sounded weird...

[@Barry-Sweaty]

thats the way the wind blows

[@kczslayer359]

im from denmark western australia, people have been waiting at the beaches to hopefully score a bale for themselves :)

[@TheMobReporter]

That’s the place! I decided not to make it because I thought it might be confused with the country of Denmark. It looks a lovely place. Let me know if anyone finds another bale or brick.

[@kczslayer359]

@@TheMobReporter never thought my small town would be featured on the mob reporter. Keep up the good reporting!

[@lemmy9996]

Black shamrocks?? Irish Mafia ain't going to be happy🤣🤣

[@TheFairestMan]

It's cool how soft the mobs voice is it just drags you in

[@breakfast917]

If I was one of those 3 fishermen I'd be looking for compensation for tarnishing my good name. Imagine being so unlucky your boat capsized while documenting sea life and during the night all those packages washed in to your forward cabin... and under the seats. I'd be flabbergasted and I wouldn't let the customs get away with trying to trick me with that old chestnut.

[@danielbrealey2924]

Little known fact; The damage to the vessel was actually caused by running into the damn coke island before it floated away into different waters from the momentum of the impact! 😳

[@user-sz2px8pv3f]

You're forgetting what countries these guys are dealing with. They don't care about your repair and have their own rules

[@adammarshall9846]

​@@user-sz2px8pv3fyou're forgetting sarcasm,.calm down sons of anarchy wannabee

[@cmonster6]

In Florida we call these square Grouper 😊

[@somerandomfella]

Imagine being rescued only to be jailed for 25. Saved from the bear only to be eaten by the tiger 😢

[@TheMobReporter]

They must have worried about sharks 🦈🦈🦈

[@somerandomfella]

@@TheMobReporter damn.. Forgot about the sharks.

[@TheMobReporter]

NEVER forget about the sharks...

[@AllanDeal]

I’m thinking a film about a super charged shark is in the pipeline guys

[@beverslayer]

​@@AllanDealcocaine shark to follow the movie cocaine bear.

[@graemebrown1191]

Thank you

[@chrislegit3198]

Cocaine Shark! Coming to theaters near you!

[@igdes1]

I would have loved to come across that.

[@mrdivinelightning]

Man the fish 🐠 mafia must be mad !! 😅😅😅 they just lost a big shipment

[@Vince1979Gator]

👊🏼🐊 MOB REPORTER keeping it real.

[@1331RECIPROCITY]

Good job.

[@trj1442]

I live in Australia and had heard about the guys rescued holding on to the Esky cooler and the suspicion they were part of a drug smuggling ring. The Mob Reporter once again provides the footage and the details that we never see on main stream media. Love your work TMR.

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks for that feedback, TRJ.

[@lacascadaobregon]

Any links to this ??????/////

[@stevendossi4764]

It's 2 different drug importations not related one is off NZ other was off Perth

[@trj1442]

Yeah I think TMR explained that. I was referring to the Australian situation. We don't get much news about NZ here in Oz nless there's an earthquake or we cop another ass whoppin by the All Blacks -v- Wallabies.

[@dannylujan3619]

@@stevendossi4764 which one had 600kgs arrived in Australia 🌏🦘?

[@HungryGhost999]

Love the line “ Let me tell you about it !”…. Great catchphrase ❤

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks, KE.

[@lh7325]

That first haul would apparently supply NZ for thirty years, and only Aus for one. We sure do love our coke here.

[@TheMobReporter]

Aussies are huge consumers of coke and meth, yes.

[@SwordOfS]

I do appreciate your fine touch in making rotate the Batman logo without missing a beat in your commentary.

[@albusai]

LoL that gets sized here in central America every other day 😅😅

[@ChilledSon]

I'm due for a vacation on a sandy island beach 😏😏😏

[@MrAirblown2009]

These guys were beginners. I can just hear them rationalizing this plan to each other. Never thinking their family pleasure boat may be too small to handle the waves in that area. That was a bone-headed mistake.

[@QEsposito510]

You must have extensive knowledge and experience in transnational shipping logistics and powder dealing. Let us know your thoughts cool dude!

[@BillyT886]

Yea….beginners moving that much weight…….SMH

[@busterbeagle2167]

being in the water in a boat is never a joke. ever.

[@busterbeagle2167]

@@QEsposito510 rude

[@kingelvis]

Unlikely to be begginers with a load that big....

[@jakcough]

Hope floats

[@PGoose63]

Great episode Mob Reporter!

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks P!

[@k3voh393]

Still doing well. I remember when you were only at 50k Subs. Keep educating brother 👌🏾

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks, K3. Stick with me.

[@Sevenigma777]

I so hope at least one person stumbled across one of these packages and had the time of their life lol

[@dertythegrower]

That happens literally every week in miami. and now many other areas. Also its quite addictive, moderation is not something that is used with that one or the other ones you see 'floating around'

[@EmperorNerox]

That's what I said some fisherman or something lol.

[@beaumershon3066]

I live in Costa Rica. I personally know someone who found 400 kilos washed up on a beach here. Lets just say, they don't need to work anymore, as they knew who to call and where rewarded quite well... This was in 2001 or so... And they still live off the "reward funds." And no, the police where not the ones called. lol

[@EmperorNerox]

@@beaumershon3066 be a fool to call police. It'd probably get u killed

[@PayMe888]

Cocaine is 20% pleasure 80% torture

[@oldscoolcooldiecast1879]

They some adventurous poeple in this world and that's a fact lol

[@blqr3138]

Wish I could have a go at making it big

[@bc-guy852]

I already KNOW that there will be more arrests from this lead story - and I'm betting we'll hear all about it right here, thanks to you TMR. (That's why I have my notifications turned on.)

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

Always been a dream of mine to stumble upon a Bale while out having a stroll along the beach.

[@keithwhittygmail]

@6:02 looks like they were loading from a crane from above and a huge load dropped and fell on it or was swinging and hit it. That's not a collision. 🤔👍

[@TheMobReporter]

Interesting possibility, thank you.

[@keithwhittygmail]

@@TheMobReporter It's my logical mind and my family are.fishermen and we've had vodka and brandy etc from container ships on their way to port before customs. You know the saying "by hook or by crook" Crooke is the place the ships passed "Passage East" Waterford Ireland. Love your reports always the best video and coverage I've seen. 💪🤪👍🔥🔥🔥

[@TheMobReporter]

Interesting, thanks I didn't know the roots of that expression.

[@keithwhittygmail]

@@TheMobReporter Oliver Cromwell said in Aylesbury UK, from a pub inn window. "We.will take Ireland by Hook (hook head Wexford ) or by Crooke ( Passage East)."They decided by Hook and had a battle as it's a peinsella and the Irish had them in a line and took out a lot of their forces. 🤪👌

[@beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Nice work! Stay safe out there!!!

[@fractal4284]

Heads are definitely going to rule just like a bowling ball for losing a load that massive someone will pay the ultimate price.

[@mickgatz214]

Ha! Do you really think the authoritys' are going to destroy the precious cargo?. 🙂😅😂🤣

[@ABCG967]

They could re pack it and sell it

[@mike62mcmanus]

I've watched what this stuff can do to a neighborhood, it isn't pretty

[@BENNY_MAC]

Why can't I come across bricks of coke floating in water 😫

[@stevendossi4764]

Well ya need a boat to start with and lots of money for fuel just driving around out in the deep sea to be lucky enough to find something,if you live off the coasts of USA your chances go up tremously compared to a sea locked land far away like Australia,it'd end up in New Zealand or Antartica before it reached shores of Australia just with the ocean currents...only way it ends up in Australian waters is by the Chinese dropping loads over the edge of there big ships

[@jasonaldenhaley1]

EXACTLY what I was thinking...OH YEAH, cause Minnesota. If bricks are around here, gotta wait about 5 - 6 more weeks for them to float again instead of being frozen into the ice of this desolate Siberian F-N Hell!! I've heard the term "....harty Minnesotans..." HELL NO, we're all too stupid to leave!

[@Happy357mag]

Just imagine walking down a beach and finding a boat full of Coke.. yippee 🥳

[@robertw8236]

Tell me about ittt

[@jazztheglass6139]

In the UK they call the method coopering. Transfer at sea to a more incognito mundane vessel, to then go onshore. Brian Wright a Irish smuggler caught late 90's was the most famous smuggler using this method. He brought multiple tonne loads to the UK for years and years. He was implicated in horse fixing were he would bribe jockeys to dope horses Brian "The Milkman" Wright is one of Britain’s biggest drugs barons. His organization smuggled hundreds of millions of pounds (£) worth of cocaine into Britain. Wright was known as a heavy gambler. He would bet £50.000 or £100.000 a time on horse races. But it is said he had fixed some of those races. When former amateur champion jockey Dermot Browne was interviewed by police he said that Wright put corrupt jockeys on his payroll with bribes of up to £5000 per race. Twenty-four leading jockeys have been accused of being associated with Wright. However Wright was never charged with anything.

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks for telling me about it.

[@loneranger5928]

Nice video thank you 👍 👍

[@rodneyfaulkner7453]

I was waiting for this report , as where the 3 men sank their boat was a regular fishing spot for me. Their choice of boat was not the best, even at 23 feet / 7 mts it was more of a family boat with not much rear deck for "Fishing" with 3 men trying to get 40kg bags into the boat on what is generally always a big sea in the area ( 4mts i have read not the best day to go out) so most likely 2 guys where leaning over to try an pull a bail and a wave over turned them .thanks again for your report

[@bluddyrowdy8757]

Good Points ! Also if they already had a few ( lots ) 40kg bales aboard on that same side of the Boat = doh.. ol' Mate worked a trawler out of Perth, they would come back in if waves got over 2 - 2.5mts, and they were on a 54 foot boat.

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

So I'm guessing you were finally able to get enough info on this case in order to make a video. Nice.

[@kittykat4168]

Wow, that's right Mob Reporter, what would be the odds of that...just amazing how they screwed up, they could have drowned...now who is going to pay...? That is the question...

[@KimonSheri]

Ooop no you didn't!! 😁😁. And I hear those birds laughing. They must have had a toot. Or snoot. The smugglers are all wet. Thank was enough coke to numb all the fish in the ocean 😅

[@luke125]

All that sweet Yejo just floating away. Too bad it didn’t land on the beach near my house. Sighs…. PS: When am I getting my free Mob Reporter T-Shirt Mob? You know I deserve one.

[@TheMobReporter]

You deserve 33 of them!

[@luke125]

@@TheMobReporter Lol 😂 I do!!

[@cranegantry868]

Good. Glad that shipment was stopped. Sydney is awash with drugs.

[@anonone8954]

I need that back, I uh.... lost it while I was doing some research on uh... ocean currents.

[@JG-hy8kv]

Ah he’s back 2023 a big year

[@simonr6793]

I can imagine that there's a rather wanted Irish family that's going to be a little peed off after hearing this!!!

[@keithwhittygmail]

Do you think it's the Kinahans with the 4 leaf clover on it. Men holding onto a cooler for dear life in the sea. Seems Irish. And.Im an Irishman, I should know. 🤣🤣🤣

[@ernestmeiehofer]

I know one thing I am so glad l didn’t have to pay for that loss.

[@anncodec]

It would be so hard to get a line laid out floating in the ocean ,I really feel for these guys,they were were there,but logistics man.

[@georgegeorgepht]

what a plot for a great comedy

[@bitcoinbeavis7742]

Whatever it takes for the blow to get where it needs to go

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Those 3 off the WA coast are lucky they didn't get eaten by a white pointer. And that's not even a stretch. WA has more people eaten by sharks than anywhere on the planet

[@whatta7793]

Wish I was on a boat and ran up on that, I'd have been happy with a couple bricks

[@JP-ey2rb]

Well done great content

[@juankruger2598]

Now I want a coke float. It's been a while; years.

[@Spiritueli]

omg, such a great story. though, i have to pinch myself to remind that this is actually happening out there ... thank you for your report, great video.

[@Barry-Sweaty]

Yeah, buoy

[@squirlboy250]

Sorry if I ran across a bundle of that, I'm not calling anyone and breaking it down to off it little by little.

[@coldpotatoes2556]

Now I know where Batman gets his special powers.

[@TheMobReporter]

Haha, that would put the dark in Dark Knight for sure

[@sulyjob2093]

Good job ❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@supervidere7]

Nice chart plotting Mob.

[@msh1916]

Dear Sir, you have a hella cool way of telling the story and a great voice. I like that your style of leaving out the morality judgment and using a gentle way of describing ineptitude. I’m not sure If you subscribe to the less is more theory but your skills of not going on too long keep the story captivating. If it’s just natural to you it’s a gift and if you learned its s a gift so thank you. M

[@TheMobReporter]

Thank you, MH. That’s nice to hear.

[@rle4806]

Bodies are already getting buried It's Already Done do whoever messed that up is gone 12 feet deep

[@ABCG967]

Thanks!

[@TheMobReporter]

Bless you, ABCG. News from you neck of the woods! Thank you.

[@busterbeagle2167]

can’t imagine how many bails have been “written off” to the ocean and/or the white fishermen. thanks so much TMR. quality as usual

[@imyur930]

These stories always remind me of the Reverend Horton Heat song🎶 "Bale's of cocaine"😂

[@chris2fer1977]

Sorry, I'm late to the party. Another great reporting job 👍

[@TheMobReporter]

All good, CF

[@brownwolf152]

New Zealand better return those packages that i misplaced.

[@HWGAFoundation]

Sensational.

[@cl3935]

We can rest easy knowing the authorities "destroyed" all of it..... ... ..

[@daviddesorcy]

good video

[@TheMobReporter]

Thanks, HR.