A Drop in the Ocean

Location
Love Media building, Bedford Point, Staunton Island
Reward
$10,000, Access to Shoreside Vale, The Shoreside Vale safehouse

Requires Waka-Gashira Wipeout!

Unlocks Shoreside Vale and its safehouse in Wichita Gardens, Grand Theft Aero, D-Ice’s payphone missions, and six-star wanted levels

A light aircraft will fly over the bay on its way to the airport tonight and drop several packages into the water. Get a boat, follow the plane, pick up all six packages before the police do, and bring them back to Donald Love.

Objectives

  1. Get a boat and follow the plane!
  2. Collect all six packages.
  3. Take them back to Donald Love.

A Drop in the Ocean walkthrough

A night drop

Donald Love explains that on its approach to the airport tonight, a light aircraft will pass over the bay and drop several packages into the water. Get a boat, follow the plane and collect them.

Donald Love and the old oriental gentleman as A Drop in the Ocean begins
Donald Love describing the light aircraft that will drop packages in the bay

Get to a boat

The nearest boat is at Callahan Point in Portland. Drive across the Callahan Bridge and down to the jetty, where a Speeder is moored. A timer counts down to the plane’s arrival, so drive straight there.

Driving a Banshee out of Bedford Point with the timer running
Crossing the Callahan Bridge to Portland
Claude climbing into the Speeder at Callahan Point

Follow the plane

Steer out into the bay and watch for the Dodo low over the water. As it flies, it drops packages one at a time, and the game counts them. Each package floats where it lands. Drive the boat over it to collect it before a police boat gets to it, because losing one to the police fails the mission. Collecting packages also earns a wanted level.

The Speeder racing across the bay toward the plane
The plane dropping the first of six packages into the water
Chasing the Dodo across the bay as it drops another package

Back to Donald Love

With all six, the game tells you to take them back to Donald Love. Sail to a jetty on Staunton Island, such as the one in Newport, then drive to the Love Media building in Bedford Point. Lose the police on the way if you can, since they will chase you hard.

The You have all the packages message on the water
Claude stepping onto the jetty in Newport
Driving into Bedford Point toward the Love Media building

What fails this mission

Besides dying or being arrested, the mission ends if any of these happen:

  • The police collect a package
  • The plane is destroyed

After the mission

Donald Love pays $10,000. The Lift Bridge and the tunnel to Shoreside Vale now open, a safehouse waits for you in Wichita Gardens, wanted levels can reach six stars, and D-Ice’s payphone starts ringing. Love’s next job is Grand Theft Aero.

The Mission Passed notice at the Love Media building