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Feb. 27th, 2008 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An Austrian tourist died Monday after being bitten by a shark while diving near the Bahamas in waters that had been baited with bloody fish parts to attract the predators.
This is not the dive operation that I was browsing about the other day. According to AP this trip was with a co. called Scuba Adventures. "The company's Web site says it offers the opportunity to get "face to face" with sharks. The site explains that its hammerhead and tiger shark expeditions in the Bahamas are "unique shark trips ... run exclusively for shark enthusiasts and photographers." ... Please be aware that these are not 'cage' dives, they are open water experiences."
Iyiii!! Tiger and hammerheads are, like, the grizzlies of the shark community, along with great whites, bulls, and, uh, there may be others, but those are the ones I know for sure. I'm not sure about makos and threshers, they might be, too. The other places had open water dives with white tipped reef sharks. Anyway, man, that's really sad. It must have felt safe to do in a group with a company that had been doing, so it wasn't just a hey, let's try this today kind of thing. Poor guy.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An Austrian tourist died Monday after being bitten by a shark while diving near the Bahamas in waters that had been baited with bloody fish parts to attract the predators.
This is not the dive operation that I was browsing about the other day. According to AP this trip was with a co. called Scuba Adventures. "The company's Web site says it offers the opportunity to get "face to face" with sharks. The site explains that its hammerhead and tiger shark expeditions in the Bahamas are "unique shark trips ... run exclusively for shark enthusiasts and photographers." ... Please be aware that these are not 'cage' dives, they are open water experiences."
Iyiii!! Tiger and hammerheads are, like, the grizzlies of the shark community, along with great whites, bulls, and, uh, there may be others, but those are the ones I know for sure. I'm not sure about makos and threshers, they might be, too. The other places had open water dives with white tipped reef sharks. Anyway, man, that's really sad. It must have felt safe to do in a group with a company that had been doing, so it wasn't just a hey, let's try this today kind of thing. Poor guy.