A cocaine-lined shipwreck and busting the lucrative drug route in the Pacific | 60 Minutes Australia
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In this 2014 story, 60 Minutes goes inside the multi-billion dollar cocaine war, that stretches all the way from South America to Australia. In the past 3 years, our Federal Police have intercepted nearly two tonnes of cocaine on the lucrative Pacific route. Small yachts are loaded up with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the illegal drug on the coast of Ecuador, before making the long journey here. The innocent-looking yachties breeze into our eastern waters, mostly undetected, before offloading their cargo to local dealers. Tara Brown tracks the smugglers from South America to Vanuatu and Tonga, where a boat holding 200 kilos of cocaine and a rapidly decomposing corpse was discovered shipwrecked on a remote island reef.
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Every time I hear about random massive cocaine busts near me I always think 'Why doesn't this happen to ME??' Why can't one of these yachts run aground near MY boat ramp? 😭 It's so unfair.
Why do you wish for that?
I had a friend years ago that was like 16 years old at the time that was surfing one day on a small beach not very populated in my area during the cold months and you can drive on. Huge packages of cocaine started washing up on shore and he was loading his van up but got pulled over a couple miles past the gates. He ended up on the front page of the news. About 20 years later I met the man who owned the shrimp boat the dope came off of. I was dating his nephew at the time. It was a small world back in the day growing up in a small beach town in Florida. Those were the days!!
HAHAHA🤣
Hahaha I love it and feel the same....
Heartwarming to see actual cocaine instead of the crappy fentanyl.
I’m from the USA and I like 60 minutes Australia because you report actual news. You are what journalists should be. I wish you luck on your drug problem. Unfortunately as long as there is a demand the drugs will always pour into the country just like in the USA.
Stop bootlicking... for likes...
If you're getting your "actual news" from here lmao... you're just as informed as the rest of the sheep in the USSA
@@mikeypiros6647 🤦♂️
I agree, there's been talk of complete control over the drug trade all my life, it's been around for centuries...
They'll never ever stop it unless they 100% lock down our whole society all the time, only than will it become more restricted though never eradicated, there's plenty of seeds in circulation.
Best chance is through responsible use & education, why leave drugs exclusively for Pharma billionaire's..?
Yeah, I'm in Canada, and they don't tell us stuff like this on the news. Now I understand why all those people cross the Darian gap. I would too!
Thank you Tara Brown and 60min Australia. You're a great example of real reporting. I'm an American.
Stop the bootlicking...
"I'm an American"
Not everyone is perfect.
Was it necessary to mention where you're from?
like i give a shit if ur american
I’m also American and think Australia's 60 minutes is way more interesting than americas.
i absolutely LOVE that she just leaned in to that cops vehicle and said "we just wanna talk to him about cocaine" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nek minit get drop haha
That cop hates that he has to protect that crooked rich scumbag.
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“we just want to talk to him about cocaine” 😂 love tarra brown 🤍
The Cop was struggling too... "ugghhhhh....?" Either the coke Took over him, or he was about to make a Deal
I absolutely adore you're straight out blunt asking or saying something that no one else will, "We just wanted to ask him about Cocaine" to the Police officer, and not taking any shit from the muscle who came out to intimidate you too. Love you're tenacity ;)
So funny when she said to police guy I want to talk to him about cocaine. LOL!
@@441rider Yea, I cracked up too
@@jnielsen90 Ya soon tourists can actually ask police in Canada where to score dope and get directions for more than pot. Vancouver is bizarro world now.
@@441rider Well it's not illegal to ask Police for directions to anywhere...they don't have to provide them, but it's not illegal to ask....it's stupid, but not illegal. I live in Victoria just a ferry ride from Vancouver and I've lived here my whole life and Vancouver is no different then it always has been. It's a port that most illrgal narcotics are smuggled into Canada through so naturally it will have a higher amount of drug use and drug violence then other major cities. I still feel safer in Vancouver where less gun violence and shootings occur in a single year then it does in most American states in a single month. Even in Vancouver I have never felt the need to arm myself or have a weapon to feel safe. In any American city I can't say the same thing. So I see America as a bizarro World, not anywhere in Canada. Also our health care system recognizes addiction as a disease and not just a criminal act of being an addict and so anyone can seek medical assistance for their drug addictions without fear of ending up in a jail cell instead of a treatment facility like in the USA. Alsi our medical system must provide funding for drug rehab and addiction where as American Insurance providers can and will choose not to provide coverage for addictions.....leading to so many being incarcerated and in jail for simple possessions of drugs like the USA's jails are filled with right now. We perfer to get them help if they want it rather then stigmatize them as criminals and arrest and jail them for it
She IS the moment! ❤
"Don't hold your breath." Nice!😂
Imagine having the police called on you and saying to them "we were just wanting to talk about cocaine" as if that should be fine
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His response was equally weird 😅😅
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Thank you !! Well done, frightening, and overwhelming. A superb piece of journalism.. Kudos for such in depth work.
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"if it wasn't foul p[lay, how might he have died?". What a brillliant interviewer!!
60 Minutes Australia and this reporter are the jam ❤😊
Brilliant coverage by Tara Brown, my favorite host on 60 Minutes Australia. Love all the programs and even more so now that comments are open to viewers. Well Done 60 Minutes Australia!
I'm surprised 60MINUTED Australia has the comment section on! Usually they don't.
Shocked! 1st time I've seen this open.
@@MA-fg5hzThis is the second one they've opened. The first was a 40+year old episode about Bob Marley from 1981, shortly after he died.
@@bubzilla6137actually its the third lately.. they had comments open on the Chinese police stations in Australia etc.. makes me wonder why 😏
@@richyrich3170 Oh, I missed that one. Haha! Yeah, I'm quite curious why they're suddenly on too. 🧐🤔
They probably did not realise.
We live in a Wild World 🌎
How refreshing to watch a real journalist doing real journalism.
Im from britain and our MSM has become a pathetic joke that's little more than a political platform for the progressives.
I will be watching your back catalogue of episodes with great interest.
Stop bootlicking cause this is MSM,in case you didn't notice..
I'm from the UK and I've been watching 60 mins Australia for a few years now, they are really good 👍
It's amazing that a government as oppressive and hostile to Civil Rights as Australia allows this kind of journalism to happen. I imagine it's just a matter of time before REAL journalists like this end up in "reeducation camps", or get framed for some weird, random crime and locked up...
who needs progress? lol
My friend was a sailor who did two runs from Peru to Australia in the 1990s. He made $17 million tax free. Before that he was making $25K a year repairing sails for a sail loft on St Thomas.
Smart man
High risk High reward
That’s probably how much tRump made with all his illegal scams and donations he got in less than 6 months if not more ..lol
And money laundry was almost unheard of ....
Ur friend also not a greedy one and knew when to stop. Hope he turned the money into something good for his family generation .....
Bullshit🤣
And I don't understand how people can afford to be coke addicts. Its so expensive! 😳
Right😂
because drugs come first b4 bills and food ! thats what addiction does to people, then it escalates to stealing and drug dealing !!
Watching from the Kingdom of Belgium, I was not aware of this. We have also hughe problems in Antwerp because of this traffic. Thank you for your inquiry. Your journalists are amazing !
Typical behavior when a politician in that part of the world gets caught. They just end up letting him go. No charges. Because of so much bribery and corruption. Happens so much in Southeast Asia where I lived for years. It was ridiculous. They were immune to charges.
Correct
Yes, it's all about who you know, how much power you have and how much money you have.
Australia is know different
@@billyballsup2685 What?
@@sw6188 it's no different in Australia they all cover each other's arses.
Brilliant informative content coverage interesting insight, well researched and presented. First class reporting. Thank you.
All the pacific island countries are extremely vulnerable to corruption due to extreme poverty. 😢
Bullshit
the dead guy on the yacht probably snorted some massive lines and had a heart attack
Oooh I’m settling in for this one 🍿
Top Rate Journalism from 60 Minutes Australia, as always!👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
🙋♀️ Thank you for opening the comment section. I love the Australian version of 60 Minutes, watching from the USA.
This story is heartbreaking and I hope your country can somehow, some day successfully come together with Ecuador to solve this mutual problem.
Ditto I like watching from U.S. too😊
Same!
Yeah we need to learn how to grow coca here ! Eliminate the risk of loosing too much product on the way!
@@Iswhatitisssss 🤣🤣🤣
lol it’ll never be solved so long as there’s people who want dope…supply I& demand 😂
Tara Brown you are my favorite 60 minute reporter. ❤ you from Michigan USA.
no one cares that you are from the US
Great work!!!! Do one about hiw the drug money comes out of Australia.
Thanks for the informative video 👍👍
The best journalist ever ❤❤
from Somalia, l always watch 60 minutes absolutely every night. This is my first experience, l have never heard about Tonga island.
I just wish that Coke would put the Coke back in the bottle! Just imagine how refreshing it would be?
Tara Brown, you rock! Thank you for your reporting!
Best channel when it comes ďecomentey
Thanks for posting.
Wow amazing information here, thanks sooo much 60minutes 🙏🏾
Our golden triangle: Fiji, Tonga n Samoa 🇼🇸 #1☝🏾need to stand together n fight the narcotics curse fm the east 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Dismantling syndicates 🤣 Gota love Aussie Cops 🚔
Great upload❤this is worse than any pandemic😢 unfortunately it destroys mostly the youth in our countries 😭
the youth are not doing cocaine. they can't afford it
I love sixty minute..
First channel i watch is 60 minute.
Thankyou for giving all the facts..❤
Great reporting!
Brilliant video, pretty lady! : ) Hello from USA! I love 60 mins down under, much better than ours! : )
Money and greed breed corruption...
A circle of death...
Kudos to the honest few fighting against an ever intrusive evil...
However small the flame...
No amount of darkness can fully extinguish it...
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And as soon as the camera is turned off, they probably are snorting some lines laughing.
Yep it is someone in Tonga because they are doing similar in New Zealand
What a job it is to open and close the furnace door! 🎉😊
Good work, Tara Brown. Also, do another follow-up story on Black flights between PNG and Australia; the last 2 aircraft caught is almost $1 billion worth of cocaine. I have a strong feeling these flights are still happening
60 minutes should make a documentary on all the people been executed in broad daylight in the streets of sydney...don't ignore it or it will be too late
Love watching this Documentary program...
Sam from the Philippines
China🇨🇳 now offers a PhD. program in the following subjects:
- Advanced Chemistry in Fentanyl,
- Election interference without a trace,
- IP thefts in a nutshell, and
- Assimilate and Denial concentration.
Evidence please. Or stop lying.
@@moimeself1088 you're living under a rock!
Really ? I don't doubt it. Send me some links. Will do a deep dive. Cheers mate
Oh rubbish.
It was the British East India Company in the 1800s that forced Opium into China-where it was ILLEGAL-from India, took Silver bullion in return, then fought the two Opium Wars to enforce their 'rights' as international narco-dealers, and when China lost, took a lot of Chinese territory as well, including Hong Kong.
Get back to Comrade Putin for your new BS script.
Need to work with the Australian Intel Agency
Got a lot of info regarding drug trafficking
thank you for keeping the comment section open.
Helicopters shooting atcars on public streets gotta love the dedication.. 🚗🚗💥💥💥💥🚁
i love watching your news, good luck from philippines
I spent couple of weeks in Tonga while circumnavigating the globe. I stayed at the Friendly Islander and Dateline hotels. The king was rowing in the harbour. 🙂 He was really big, over 200 kg.
Never thinking about the end of the line for cocaine they confiscated. It looked as if they dropped it into an incinerator of sorts. What do they do to keep the smoke from being toxic after burning? curious!
It's not toxic. It just gets you high
Quite often seized coke goes to government for medical purposes,
Always great documentaries from 60 Minutes Australia.
@7:23 we just want to talk to him about cocaine 😂
The cops: ohhh ok
Tara Brown always first class reporting👌
For anyone that thinks Tonga is innocent, they are most certainly not 😂
Tonga was caught selling it's passports to terrorists and also baring the flag on marine vessels to indicate it belonging to Tonga. 😮😮😮
Fiji Samoa NZ bigger dealers 😊
just imagine for a sec how many lives would be saved and how many taxdollars would be generated if it was a legit business
I'm agree people is free consume warever they want , but it needs to be restrictions and control, id registration and límites per day
Good show
Why don't the Australian Government just legalise, regulate and tax certain drugs and divert the money back into community health programs. Cut the criminals out of this trade and give informed adults a safe option to access recreational drugz
That is the last thing that the cartels want. As a result, they invest large volumes of cash to ensure that it remains illegal. Everything from lobbying legislators to setting up anti-drug non profits. On this drug crazed planet black has become white and vice versa.
Few of these drugs are actually harmful on their own, as long as you can maintain a steady and reliable supply after becoming addicted. The real harm comes from problems associated with it's legality and the stigma that goes along with being a drug addict. And of course the problems of overdosing, because you never know the actual purity or composition of what you are using. Things such as exorbitant cost and unsure supply. The effort and lengths that you have to go to hide your addiction, and the poverty that comes along with that, are the source of the majority of negative effects of the use of these substances. Things like not seeking medical help for abscessed puncture marks, living on the streets and not maintaining anything close to a regular diet are just a few of the problems that an addict encounters.
Im also very impressed with Equador. Way to go 🙂🇨🇦. A very dangerous job so courageous
i live in ecuador, on the beach in Manta and PuertoCayo, never EVER seen boats like that. So ridiculous, the drugs go out in crappy little boats at night. Silly reporting. Any idea how bad the corruption is here ? Deeper investigating is required
they force fishermen to take it out or die, dig deeper
and you think they burn the drugs hahahahahahaha, they resell them. wake up
Not gonna happen, the reporter will be reported missing
Well, that makes it easy to make small time busts, anyway. Just look for the wealthy folks at high price clubs, because that stuff adds up to be _insanely expensive_ down under!
Only the very rich can use it often. Hope you are looking internally for "bad actors" in police/government in 🇦🇺 . The cocaine business, with the amount of money involved, makes it more appealing than the high itself! Not like the U.S isn't a sieve - oceans, gulfs, seas, islands, harbors and thousands of miles of coastlines combine to make "drug by yacht" a problem in every coastal State (oh... and 5 great lakes, too!) Planes, trains, automobiles, boats, subs, humans... it's endless. Scary.
7:45 we just wanna talk to him about cocaine😂
if I had come across and seen a sailboat, I would have borrowed a few packages 😂😂😂
Love you.😊
Puts a new meaning to "High Seas".
Where there’s a demand, the suppliers WILL find a way to satisfy said demand
Send them our old disco shirts and some bee gees albums 😂
A WW2 or pre WW2 vintage German Mauser HSc pistol is an odd one to turn up in Tonga.
Oregon...great reporting
The chiefs in Tonga never seen that amount of money you know what they did if you are from or familiar with that part of the world just food for thought that’s all I’m from Fiji Islands close to Tonga 🇹🇴
No filter or scrubber on that smoke stack. Just polluting openly while they preach to us about auto emissions.
Prohibition doesn't work
She almost drooled.
Love how they make up these numbers for what it’s worth they are working out broken down in grams on the street
Tara Brown ❤️
I think as long as there is high demand in here Australia we can never stop it. But we can spend more money on fighting it not just in Australia but training the drug squads in the country of origin such as columbia. As long as our government (Australia) pretend that this drug problem doesn't exist the future doesn't look good
How come i didn't know this story 😅this shipwreck was right under my nose😂
liked the closing pun
Thank you for the truth reporting
Holy smoke....can we stop wasting all this precious cargo 🤦♂️
Listen I'll take charge of it and make sure it's consumed responsibly
60 minutes Australia is really a good media channel👍 producing constructive documentaries and news to help societies unlike other Western channels like CNN etc. which are politically motivated and profit-driven media channels👎
Leave the comment section open going forward.
What is the name of that eerie song playing in the back round?
Unbelievable
Wow! Almost 2 tons. The movie XX shows shipments of 22 metric tons each flight. If you actually believe the numbers reported by the government, the average addict uses about 0.1g/year. The numbers just don't add up.
The increasing prices are exactly why there will never be a shortage homie
It's weird that they would entrust millions of dollars of drugs to two guys, then just allow it to be found and disposed of.
It’s produced in such massive quantities, they don’t even worry about what’s lost because the amount they successfully traffic is so large.
It's not expensive when they purchase it from the source
3k a brick at most.
That's crazy they make homade submarines and travel 7,000 miles to Australia.
I'm sure the cartels employ engineers for such tasks. I'd imagine being underwater would be a lot safer than the trip on the waves.
no they don't
@@0warami_7oo they make billions monthly and run tons of world wide logistics. Pretty sure they're smart enough to employ the right people to help them in tasks they know nothing about. Like building a small submarine for example. Every body has a price after all
@joshlewis575 I said they don't come to Australia in them home made submarines.
I wasn't replying to you haha
I hope they stay on the right path.
I remember the Columbian cocaine issue. I had read a book called “Cocaine Wars” 25 + years ago, and this sort of reminds of the similar problem. Seems from what I remember there was ignoring of the contraband at times coming into the US. Too much profit for certain people to put a lot of effort into eradicating this situation. However, not that they are giving up trying, even now.
The VAST majority of cocaine coming into the USA is being brought in by the Government, to convert to crack, which they distribute in poverty-stricken urban areas, to keep the people drugged up and "on the plantation". This is one of the oldest tricks in the book...
The root of the problem in "MONEY AND GREED"
They go the other side of the glove and some peoples still believe that the earth is flat 😄🤦🏽♂️
These stories never end. Neither does the corruption and violence. Devaluing the product thru clever legalization is the solution.
Great reporting ! Please do a story on why so many people want to do cocaine or any drug at this point. The last town I lived in was consumed by fentanyl and meth. There were terrible addicts of course and regular customers but it seemed like the drugs were going around in circles being resold and upsold and not consumed over and over again. The drug dealers were so getting frustrated that there were a few stories where dealers actually were bullying people to buy their product !😂
Try some good quality coke and you'll have the answer all on your own 😍 damn addicts ruining it for those of us in control of our sh*t 🙄🤦🏽♀️
Do you know if there are a lot of straight men who have sex with other men to make money to support their drug habits? No one is talking about this.
@@keztukariri exactly!
Cops products
@@johnkah0406yeah, it was a long time ago, but I had some sh*t on new years Y2K that would have blown your doors off, I honestly wish it had been cut a little, there's a lot more to that particular story, all I'll say is that a lot of law enforcement wanted to cut loose that night, everyone had a good time and nobody overdosed on fent, ah the good ol days 😅😅
Drug users in Australia obviously have a lot more money than drug users in the UK. it's over 2x the price 😮, there's only 25 million ppl there to.
True but household incomes are much higher in Australia
It’s more inventive then you’ll ever know.