Sharks might be consuming cocaine as America's drug crisis spills into the sea

Scientists believe sharks are consuming cocaine dumped into the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean by drug smugglers. One marine biologist is researching the effects.

"This is likely the only place in the whole world where this happens," Hird said. "It's certainly the only place in the whole world where it happens with such frequency."

The illicit drugs end up in the ocean when drug smugglers make drug drops or dump them before getting caught.