Immersed in an 800k steel ball, 220 liters of gin disappears from Lake Constance
A Swiss company immersed this alcohol to a depth of 23 meters at the end of August, which was supposed to bring a special flavor to this gin that was previously sold at 99 euros a bottle. The problem: Well-equipped thieves may have taken it all.
A spherical ball weighing 800 kilograms of steel, containing 220 liters of gin, which was submerged in late August in Lake Constance, Switzerland, and mysteriously disappeared to a depth of 23 meters, the Swiss company Fishgroup, which specializes in the manufacture of this alcohol, discovered on December 7.
For three years this company has been infusing special coffees for the Christmas holidays, in order to give a special flavor to these bottles, all pre-selling at around 99 euros. The steel ball is submerged by a floating crane and with divers anchoring the device to the bottom of the lake.
Underwater robot and sonar device
Trouble is, when the crane returned this week to retrieve the alcohol, they only found the trail of the ball at the bottom of the lake, he declared Swiss newspaper Le Matin. The company searched the entire bottom of the lake using divers, sonar and an underwater robot, but found no trace of the ball.
Well-equipped thieves might have succeeded in getting ahead, seizing the container and the contents of this contraption: enough to give the producers and gin-lovers a hangover, two weeks before the end of the holiday. general.