Shark Week show delves into the whether sharks off the coast of Florida are coming into contact with the huge quantities of cocaine that get dumped in these waters.
For decades, huge bundles of cocaine have washed up on Florida beaches, having been smuggled from South and Central America. Hauls are often dumped at sea , and currents and tides push them to shore. In June, the U.S. Coast Guard seized over 14,100 pounds of cocaine in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, with an estimated value of $186 million.
Hird and Fanara set their sights on the Florida Keys, where fishers tell stories of sharks consuming drugs that have been funneled into the region on ocean currents. In the show, they dive with sharks to look for any unusual behaviors and begin to see sharks acting in unexpected ways. One great hammerhead — a species that's normally wary of people — comes straight at the team and appears to be swimming with a wonk.
Hird said that what they uncovered doesn't necessarily show that sharks in Florida are consuming cocaine. A multitude of factors could explain the behavior observed during filming, and these experiments would need to be repeated over and over to draw full conclusions.
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