State is considered a high-intensity trafficking spot where ‘cocaine sharks’ may be consuming the drugs underwater
the discovery, saying that divers found 25kg of individually wrapped packages of suspected cocaine that were located approximately 100ft underwater.
“The sheriffs responded to the Rainbow Reef Dive Center in Key Largo at approximately 12.25pm where divers stated they were removing what they thought was trash when the discovery was made,” the sheriff’s office said. A photo posted on Facebook showed a ripped black garbage bag next to the gray packages of suspected cocaine. Each of the packages was wrapped in clear plastic and marked with a blue “Nike SB” sign and the Nike swoosh logo.
“The sheriff’s office turned over the suspected narcotics to the US border patrol,” the statement said.over a ton of cocaine worth $32m near Florida. The seizure occurred in international waters of the Caribbean Sea during two separate cases,, so much cocaine has been found in waters near the state that experts say that “cocaine sharks” may be consuming the drugs underwater.
“If these cocaine bales are a point source of pollution, it’s very plausible can be affected by this chemical. Cocaine is so soluble that any of those packages open just a little, the structural integrity is destroyed and the drug is in the water,” Tracy Fanara, a Florida-based environmental engineer
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