Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas

dobladov

This classifies Cocaine Shark as a documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_Shark

metalman

this clearly points to an previously unknown seasonal migration from wall st.

stavros

After the "plastic glove" smoking gun the other day, I wonder if this is another instance of lab contamination making it into the results.

tskulbru

First it was cocaine bear, and now cocaine shark.

losthobbies

#justlikeus

laughing_man

I wonder how much of this is just that our tests are getting more sensitive.

tcper

Sharks obtain cocaine by eating people?

nashashmi

Does that make for more aggressive sharks in the waters with unexplained behaviors? Is caffeine really that bad?

croemer

The measured concentrations are on the order of 1-20 ng/mL in blood. Cmax in humans when taking those drugs are about 100-1000x higher. I wouldn't put too much weight on the finding that those with detections had different urea/lactate etc. There might be something underlying explaining both drug and physiology, like age. Could still be bad to have chronic exposure at such low levels - also fish physiology is different.

dotcoma

They probably ate lawyers from New York who were on vacation…

numpad0

Not surprising. A lot of these substances get metabolized , or just diluted by water and filtered out without being like, magically deconstructed and turned into all CO2 and H2O and N2. So a lot of wacky chemical compounds humans tend to consume tend to get detected wherever humans gather and discharge bodily fluids that eventually reach the ocean. This does not immediately indicate that e.g. evil corporations are dumping toxic wastes, forever plastics pieces are leaching out scary additives, etc.

mghackerlady

I see they've graduated High School

kleiba2

Party on, sharks!

BLKNSLVR

Now all they need is blackjack and hookers.

saivan

Reggae Shark is Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3ytTKZf344&list=RDA3ytTKZf3...

juancn

These sharks surely know how to party!

dr_faustus

Thank god, it's not microplastic!