ChaosCatalunya
5.2 club is now 8.1 club...
My friend went spearfishing here in NE Spain, floating along looking for Octopus (they spit bones out of their nest, so are easy to spot the tell tale boneyard) and saw a box sitting on the sea floor. Not a normal place to spot boxes... So, on a busy Sunday with a full beach 100m away, and the owners possibly watching, they carefully, subtly retrieved it and were rewarded with 30kg of decent Moroccan hash.
This can be a very dodgy game indeed. Nearby, just up the coast, a gang of fishermen lost a large parcel one stormy night, ditching it as the Customs power boat was getting close and landing tricky in those seas. Somehow some local divers heard about it on the grapevine, so went to the area and dived for it, found it and got it to the shore, pulling the whole lot up a cliff. They then tried to sell it... In their local village, where the local fishermen aka smugglers, had lost the very same parcel... Unamused, but playing along, they sent a friend to recover the haul for them. He went to the remote farmhouse to take the haul off the divers where it was being dried.... Just as he is about to get stuck in to the tricky business of repossession, the Guardia Civil show up, they have been watching the whole thing from start to finish, busted the lot of them.
This can be a very dodgy game indeed. Nearby, just up the coast, a gang of fishermen lost a large parcel one stormy night, ditching it as the Customs power boat was getting close and landing tricky in those seas. Somehow some local divers heard about it on the grapevine, so went to the area and dived for it, found it and got it to the shore, pulling the whole lot up a cliff. They then tried to sell it... In their local village, where the local fishermen aka smugglers, had lost the very same parcel... Unamused, but playing along, they sent a friend to recover the haul for them. He went to the remote farmhouse to take the haul off the divers where it was being dried.... Just as he is about to get stuck in to the tricky business of repossession, the Guardia Civil show up, they have been watching the whole thing from start to finish, busted the lot of them.