Cocaine Bear, meet Cocaine Shark. There has been for years speculation that sharks may eat narcotics (among other things) they encounter floating in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, however, researchers say it’s entirely possible.
There has been for years speculation that sharks may eat narcotics they encounter floating in the Gulf of Mexico.This week marks Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week,” a bonanza of shark-related programming which has developed an almost cult following. One of the programs this week, set to air Wednesday, carries the tantalizing title “Cocaine Sharks.”
2009: two bricks of cocaine were found on the beach on Dauphin Island. The same thing happened again earlier this year.2021: a 70-pound package of cocaine washed up in Boca Raton.2017: A 50-pound brick washed up on Melbourne Beach. Fanara also noted the experiments and the interest the idea of cocaine-eating sharks might engender will bring public attention to a greater problem.
“If these cocaine bales are a point source of pollution, it’s very plausible [sharks] can be affected by this chemical,” Fanara said. “Cocaine is so soluble that any of those packages open just a little, the structural integrity is destroyed and the drug is in the water.”
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Watch orca tear open whale shark and feast on its liver in extremely rare footageHannah Osborne is the planet Earth and animals editor at Live Science. Prior to Live Science, she worked for several years at Newsweek as the science editor. Before this she was science editor at International Business Times U.K. Hannah holds a master's in journalism from Goldsmith's, University of London.
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