The January 11 2008 New York Times had an interesting article about a tiny cargo on a gigantic ship.
A 75-pound cargo valued at $10 million triggered action by the fast gray boat in the foreground. Can you guess what it is? Clue: It ain’t sludge.
Read the Times article here. The above is not the cargo ship in question, but can you imagine searching for 75 pound of cargo on such a gargantuan vessel? Or searching at night?
Unrelated addendum from autounleashed and related to Port Elizabeth, NJ car wrecks on the high seas here.
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January 21, 2008 at 1:38 am
suburbanlife
Will – 75 pounds of cargo is quite small. Unbelievable that organized crime is so infiltrated on waterfronts as to be able to plant such goods at one end, and unearth them at another site for eventual distribution. Of course, hiding drugs in a container of ordinary goods is an excellent ploy, but it still staggers my imagination as to how many people are involved and implicated in such a shipment. And then for authortes to have to unearth it – that’s like searching for a needle in a haystack, using a cliched analogy. Is the grey vessel a government vessel? How did you come by the photo? G
January 21, 2008 at 11:02 am
mike
Yo Will,
Mike here from the Housebarge and all that.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/rfs/543426184.html
I was as usual wondering about live aboards, live aboard tugs and the like. This post about smuggling reminded me of the most famous, to me, tug live aboard Jack Maple.
http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/JackMaple.html
Yet I’m able to find nothing about his actual craft, its name, where it is now, what happened to it and what it looks like? Any ideas?
-m
January 21, 2008 at 11:43 am
will
hey mike-
nice to hear from you; passed on that houseboat link. i read the rich.hill story and don’t know about jack maple. nowhere in the news stories did i see anything about his living on a tug. here’s a nytimes link you probablt have: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E4DD173FF936A25754C0A96F958260
use email to tell me what you know about that. email me and i’ll tell you my tele# too.
w