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Two nabbed over botched 560kg cocaine import off WA

A 45-year-old man has been extradited from Queensland to WA over a 560kg importation of cocaine. (HANDOUT/AFP)

Two men are behind bars, accused of a botched attempt to retrieve more than half a tonne of cocaine from the ocean that had been dropped overboard from a bulk cargo carrier.

The Australian Federal Police says the audacious plan came undone when a 45-year-old man got into trouble and needed rescuing from his seven-metre fishing boat on August 7, off the Western Australia coast at Denham.

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