2009-10-24 07:27:37 - Beach combing may be taking a turn for the worst as more and more undesirable objects wash ashore.

Beach combing, for most people is a fun and a relaxing thing to do. Still, as more and more unwanted things wash ashore, it is becoming a risky occupation and not something you really want your kids to do.

A two pound brick of banned drugs was recently found washed up on the beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama, by volunteers who were cleaning the beach on a Saturday morning.

Anthony LaFrenier, Dauphin Island Police Officer said “The cocaine was packaged in black garbage bag-like material and cellophane and sealed up almost water-tight”.

LaFrenier confirmed it could have been on a boat that sank, or it could have thrown it over from a boat the U.S. Coast Guard was about to search. It is

revealed the package could have a street value of $60,000 or more.
In September, a 56 year old man discovered a brick of cocaine on Delray Beach, Florida. Police instantly took possession of the package.

Beachcombers discovered two dozen neatly wrapped packages of cocaine weighing roughly 50 pounds, on a beach west of Se Rim State Park, in Sabine Pass, Texas, in May. It was expected the find to be valued at around $500.000. According to Major Jimmy Singletary with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said the cocaine was wrapped in 24 separate packages, each weighing one kilo (or 2.2 pounds).

A wildlife researcher and his partner found packages of cocaine in Feb 2008, wrapped in sacking, at Kynance Cove, near Helston in the United Kingdom.

The packages were covered in goose barnacles, which are native to the waters of the Caribbean. It is thought they may have drifted thousands of miles across the Atlantic in strong winds and tides. It is thought the seizure had a valued of millions of pounds.

A short time later other packages were washed up in Bude, U.K. Around 37 kilos of cocaine valued at around $400,000 was recovered by police in Dec 2006, from a Hollywood beach.

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