Ireland seized a ship smuggling 32 million cigarettes and could not sell it or scrap it, so it ended up as the country's first artificial reef, and fish have already moved in

Ireland seized a ship smuggling 32 million cigarettes and could not sell it or scrap it, so it ended up as the country's first artificial reef, and fish have already moved in

Artificial reef: the MV Shingle, seized by Ireland in 2014 with 32 million smuggled cigarettes, was sunk in Killala Bay in 2024 and fish have moved in.