Royal Navy warship seizes more than £40m of cocaine in Caribbean Sea

Watch the moment £40m of cocaine is seized from the Caribbean Sea by a Royal Navy warship. The Royal Navy said it is the sixth drug bust made by HMS Trent in 2024, and it has seized close to seven tons of drugs worth £551.5 million from traffickers. HMS Trent’s commanding officer Commander Tim Langford described the latest bust on 8 August as “another significant haul”. HMS Trent was pressed into action in this latest operation after being alerted to a speedboat that was suspected to be smuggling cocaine around 120 nautical miles south of the Dominican Republic. Watch more on Independent TV: The Independent is the world’s most free-thinking newsbrand, providing global news, commentary and analysis for the independently-minded. Subscribe: Find us on social: TikTok / @independent Instagram / X (Twitter) / https: