 | Last May a shark fisherman saw a rope from the water that was buried under a patch of sand on an island in the Solomon Sea. He found $50m worth of cocaine stuffed inside 11 duffel bags and brought them to a village near Budi Budi Island, about 700km east of Papua New Guinea's capital, Port Moresby. |  Later, a gang of tattooed Asian men arrived by boat and seized the drugs. |
 | PNG police later intercepted the modified trawler with the help of Australian aerial surveillance and arrested seven men. The cocaine was not with them and only a small amount was found. Their boat could not be inspected because it was booby-trapped. It was also too heavy to be towed. Police abandoned it somewhere off the Siassi islands. |  The seven men were escorted to Alatou, the capital of the Milne Bay province. They pleaded guilty for immigration offences. The cocaine has not been found. |
