Cocaine-fueled sharks are on the prowl in the Caribbean — scientists blame partying tourists

[bigheadfred]

This puts the “white” in “Great White.”

Move over “Cocaine Bear.” Brazilian scientists have discovered traces of nose candy, caffeine and painkillers in sharks swimming in waters around the Bahamas.

These “blow-fish” aren’t getting hooked on purpose — it’s the fallout from an uptick in marine pollutants, per an a-jaw-calyptic study published in the journal Environmental Pollution.

“Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are increasingly recognized as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in marine environments, particularly in areas undergoing rapid urbanization and tourism-driven development,” the researchers wrote while describing the troubling shark-otics trend.

To see whether these marine marauders were under the influence, the team had reportedly analyzed blood samples from 85 specimens around Eleuthera, one of the Bahamas’ most remote islands. The subjects were drug-tested for both legal and illegal substances.

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[Wingnut]

Kip Addotta could have a whale of a time with this Wet Dream.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The only thing more aggressive than a Bull Shark is a coked-up Bull Shark.

D.E.A. underwater surveillance photo:

[PeteS in CA]

I don't think any of the drug-smuggler boats Trump had sunk were taken out near the Bahamas, but those sinkings would have released into the Caribbean a lot of coke or whatever drugs they were carrying.

[catfish1957]

This will really amp up Shark Week this year......   

[LadyLiberty]

I don't think any of the drug-smuggler boats Trump had sunk were taken out near the Bahamas, but those sinkings would have released into the Caribbean a lot of coke or whatever drugs they were carrying.

All those people claiming that those boats weren't smuggling drugs because they could not reach the US are full of it. They don't need to get to the US, just to the first interim stop.

Take a look at Norman's Cay in the Exumas, a district of the Bahamas (I took my profile pic in the Exumas). For quite a while, Norman's Cay was controlled by Carlos Lehder, who was a co-equal with Pablo Escobar in the Medellin cartel. A tremendous amount of cocaine was funneled through that island on the way to the US. A marine biologist and dive master, Richard Novak, had a brief chance meeting with Lehder and Novak eventually ended up on Norman's Cay where he sabotaged the operation and helped to bring Lehder to justice.  The story is chronicled in the book "Turning the Tide: One Man Against the Medellin Cartel." There are also some pretty good documentaries on Lehder.  https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200236742/s02-e06-the-colombian-rambo-carlos-lehder

The Bahamas has 700 islands and cays, so lots of "opportunity" for someone to set up a nefarious operation.

And while I'm at it, I have to correct the writer of this article. The Bahamas are NOT in the Caribbean, they are in the north Atlantic. The northern edge of the Caribbean is on the southern coast of Cuba. https://www.worldatlas.com/seas/caribbean-sea.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

Shark Week: Cocaine Shark vs Meth Shark vs Roid Rage Shark