VICEさんのインスタグラム写真 - (VICEInstagram)「Forget 'Cocaine Bear,' it's possible a new killing machine has found cocaine. That's according to scientists, who think that sharks could be munching through bales of coke dropped by drug traffickers off Florida's coast. In their research, the scientists say they observed strange shark behavior, including a sandbar shark swimming in circles seemingly focused on an imaginary object, and a hammerhead shark (a species which usually swims away from humans) moving erratically toward divers. ⁠ ⁠ Large quantities of plastic-wrapped drugs are usually deposited in Florida's oceans as transporters look to lay off their product if pursued by law enforcement. Ergo, sharks then potentially chomp on the drugs and start to do weird shit. "While we were in the Keys filming, cocaine bales were washing ashore, like twice in one week, so it’s really a prevalent issue,” said Dr Tracy Fanara, a Florida-based environmental engineer and lead member of the research team, of the issue of drugs lost to the sea.⁠ ⁠ 'Cocaine Sharks' is set to be a highlight of Discovery's upcoming Shark Week with the researchers involved wanting the show, in Fanara's words, to "shed light on a real problem, that everything we use, everything we manufacture," ends up in the ocean.⁠」7月25日 0時58分