Police said the boat, which originated in Latin America, was intercepted on the high seas about 230 nautical miles from the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic, with roughly 300 bales of cocaine on board. Four crew members, all foreign nationals, were arrested. The operation, carried out in recent days under severe weather conditions, involved cooperation with British and U.S. law enforcement agencies, with support from the Portuguese Air Force. The vessel later sank.