Press conference On Operation "Maré Branca" (White Tide): Combating Transcontinental Drug Trafficking By Sea

ALMADA, PORTUGAL - OCTOBER 18: View of a Spanish registered captured sailboat and impounded cocaine packages as high-ranking officials from the Judicial Police, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Spanish Cuerpo Nacional de Policia hold a press conference in the Lisbon Navy Base on Operation "Maré Branca" (White Tide) to combat drug trafficking at sea on October 18, 2021 in Almada, Portugal. The Judiciary Police, through the National Unit for Combating Drug Trafficking, in a joint operation with the Drugs and Organized Crime Unit of the National Police of Spain and with the participation of the Portuguese Navy and Air Force, carried in recent days an operation during which it was possible to locate and then intercept a sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean transporting a total of 183 bales of cocaine with an estimated total gross weight of about 5.2 tons. This is the largest seizure of this type of narcotic drug made in Portugal in the last 15 years and one of the largest in Europe. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)