19.4 metric tons of coke.
Holy hell.
Ok, 1 metric ton = 2204.6 pounds. lets call it $8000 a pound for coke. This is "coke" not "crack" or anything like that. this is the good stuff. Thats $17,636,800.00 per metric ton. making a grand total of $342,153,920.00 worth of coke on that ship. And that IS wholesale value. If you broke it down to gram prices, it would be 1.5 billion.
Now, if I were a drug lord shipping a third of a billion dollars worth of coke, I'd have some technology behind it. How about a large capsule that is suspended below the boat. Slap a tracking device on that baby. If the coast guard shows up, drop it. You keep the coke. And it is worth your time and effort to recover said coke. couple of divers and another ship could pick it up easy. You'd be out maybe $20,000 for the recovery.
And for a self attatchment mechanism for the capsule, use battery powered electro magnets. That way the capsule is universal for any ship. No evidence in or on the ship. Its 100% gone. no levers, no cables, nothing.
They need to put some money back into the business, lol.