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In these days of moral hypocrisy certain valuable commodities can be hard to import. On its approach to the airport tonight, a light aircraft will pass over the bay. It will drop several packages into the water. Make sure you pick them up before anyone else does.

A Drop in the Ocean is a mission in Grand Theft Auto III given to protagonist Claude by media tycoon and businessman Donald Love from the Love Media building in the Bedford Point district of Staunton Island, Liberty City.

Mission[]

Claude goes to Donald Love's place looking for more work. A DeadDodo plane is dropping a few packages on the sea and Love wants him to pick them up before anyone else does. After being informed about the plane, Claude gets a car and drives to a boat. He follows the plane, and later on, the plane starts to drop packages. Claude collects all six, and then makes his way back to Love Media Building, all while avoiding the gained attention from the police, to give the packages to Donald.

Mission Objectives[]

In order to complete the mission the player must:

  • Get a boat and follow the plane.
  • Pick up each of the 6 packages dropped by the plane.
  • Take the packages to Donald Love.

Reward[]

The reward for this mission is $10,000. Shoreside Vale is also unlocked, finally making all areas in the game available to the player. The missions Grand Theft Aero, Marked Man and Uzi Money are unlocked.

Transcript[]

Transcript
At the rooftop of the Love Media Building, Donald Love and Old Oriental Gentleman are practicing martial arts. Claude soon enters.
Donald Love: In these days of moral hypocrisy, certain valuable commodities can be hard to import. On its approach to the airport tonight, a light aircraft will pass over the bay. It will drop several packages into the water. Make sure you pick them up before anyone else does.
Claude gets a boat, then heads south of Portland to intercept a plane, which eventually gets in range and drops 6 packages. Claude collects the packages and heads back to the Love Media building, with cops and the FBI on his tail.


News Report[]

Transcript
Reporter: Good news to commuters from Shoreside: engineers have finally managed to repair the damaged mechanism on the Staunton Lift Bridge and it is now open to traffic flow both to and from Shoreside Vale.

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Trivia[]

  • If the player does not pick up the packages in time, then the police will get in their Predator boats (the only police use of Predators in the entire game) and seize the packages, causing the mission to fail. If the cops fail to do their job, they will chase and shoot the player with the built-in guns.
  • This is the only mission in the game which features the FBI Car, since the player earns a 5-star wanted level.
  • Although Donald says that the plane will come at nighttime, the player can do this mission at any time.
  • If the plane gets destroyed, the mission will fail. However the packages will not disappear until they have been collected.[1]
  • This is also one of the two times the DeadDodo is featured in the game's missions, the other being S.A.M.
  • Love leaves the player a Predator at the exact place where Ray does in the mission Gone Fishing, although using it is the player's choice.
  • The DeadDodo will continue flying after dropping the final package and will actually land at Francis International Airport, before despawning after reaching the hangar it's parked in during the mission Grand Theft Aero.[2]
  • In The Definitive Edition, the wanted level for collecting all 6 packages was reduced to 4 stars instead of 5.

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