It really is Shark Week again, huh?
But this year's Shark Week, which is airing next week on Discovery, takes the cake when it comes to headlines-grabbing reports about the underwater monsters, this time with speculation about "cocaine sharks" devouring huge bales of cocaine that sometimes wash up on Florida beaches.as far-fetched as it sounds.
Hird and Fanara got to work by dropping simulated packages of "cocaine" — no sharks were harmed in the making of this Discovery special — to see if the sharks would bite. Even when placed next to decoy dummy swans, the sharks swam right to the bales to take a bite.. "So we can't even say well this is a baseline and go from here," he said.
We'll let readers decide whether that stands up to scrutiny. But Hird is urging audiences to consider broader implications of ocean pollution. "The deeper story here is the way that chemicals, pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are entering our waterways — entering our oceans — and what effect that they then could go on to have on these delicate ocean ecosystems," Hird
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