“The company offers shark trips to the Bahamas for enthusiasts and photographers hoping to interact with hammerhead and tiger sharks,”
Morons.
Several years ago when the kid (Jesse Arbogast?) was bitten, Florida banned these kinds of O/W shark dives on the supposition that shark dives 20+ miles off the coast encourage sharks to bite bathers at the beach. Dumb theory; dumber legislation.
Shark dives of the type are still allowed in the Bahamas. The sharks involved are usually reef & nurse sharks that are conditioned to the feeding. These sharks tend to be territorial, so when you dive a certain spot you see the same ones time & again. It’s not totally without risk, but that’s the lure.
As for the website reference to Tiger & Bull Sharks. This diver’s opinion is that only an idiot would mess with those types of sharks. I would bet that the website refers to occaisional ‘sightings’ of the more dangerous sharks & that the reporter is confusing that with the reef sharks that are deliberately being fed. If a man-eater shows up, shark feeding ceases & the bait can gets sealed.
This is a garbled report. No question in my mind. The dive operator’s competitors are doing a little bit of piling-on, and they know it.
liberals