The find at Sheerness Port in Kent is one of two underwater concealments of class A drugs ever to be discovered off the UK coast.
A haul of cocaine worth £10m has been seized after divers found it underwater off the coast of Kent. The drugs, which weighed 137kg , were discovered by the Border Force National Deep Rummage Team in four large North Face holdalls at Sheerness Port on 14 October. They were hidden inside a sea chest in an area of a shipping container used to take in seawater for stability.
The Border Force team were assisted by specialist Met Police divers, who had to work in poor conditions. Read more from Sky News:Diver dead off coast of Scotland£10,000 raised for sacked police officersMan terrified divers writhing around in gimp suit David Phillips, NCA's operations manager, said: 'This was an extremely rare and sophisticated concealment, and shows how far criminal networks will go to get dangerous drugs like cocaine into circulation.
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