Of all the ways you might expect to bust a drug smuggling operation, the assistance of a large seal probably wouldn’t crack your top 10, yet that’s what happened on Burton Island, a small island off the west coast of Australia.
When a yacht was found empty of occupants and dinghy on Stick Island, a search party was launched to find and rescue the troubled crew. The yachters, French and British nationals, were, however, not in trouble at sea, but on nearby Burton Island, allegedly hiding over $688 million worth of cocaine, ecstasy, and methamphetamine under seaweed.
