I would not do it as I don't want to be the fatality that ends that senseless practice.
Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers
Dave Dillehay
Aldora Divers
Bull sharks in Playa.
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I am with you on that, if they are being feed frequently by one OP, then they are going to associate divers as having a easy meal. Eventually a mistaken bite will happen and the shark will be vilified instead of the people that caused the circumstance to happen.
Aquabear
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I'm there in Dec and the first post sounded good but every post thereafter went sliding down hill. Have to do more research but I might just wait til I get to the Bahamas.
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I'll be in PDC the week of Dec 4-11...PM me if you'd like to possibly plan some diving. I've done an open Reef shark dive before at Roatan and cage with Tiger sharks off Hawaii. I'd be very tempted to do a Bull Shark Dive with a reputable, non-chumming outfit.
At last count I have met mr. shark on 28 dives. I considered them great photo opportunities. That said there are 4 species I'm not comfortable with. 1-Great whites (not much of a problem since I like warm water), 2-Oceanic white tips (Everyone remembers Jaws right? yeah, those that did the dirty work on the Indianapolis), again, not much of a problem since for the most part they are out in the middle of the friggin ocean, not at reefs - unless you are diving around the brothers in the red sea. 3-tigers, ok, these guys and I meet now and then. I look for a quiet out. 4-Bull sharks, see #3. If they are there I'm looking to make a non splashy non rushed out.
The vid: Bull Shark Dive - Mexico on Vimeo
As we surfaced we saw the other operator's boat on the surface, I don't know how long they'd been down and to what affect this had on the sharks, but apparently they are usually more 'inquisitive'.
As we surfaced we saw the other operator's boat on the surface, I don't know how long they'd been down and to what affect this had on the sharks, but apparently they are usually more 'inquisitive'.
annlaur
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Orm, which artist sings "Shark in the water" in your video ? I like that version.
Mike
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LOL, that's the thread where everybody was all Rah Rah Rah, let's bull shark dive!!!
Then I made up a fake in the near future newspaper article about a bull shark dive going bad.
Everybody quickly about faced on how, well obviously this isn't a good idea, look what happened.
Once it was revealed that the report was tongue in cheek and not real, they were back to Rah Rah Rah let's bull shark dive.
People are stupid.
I don't quite understand the posters on this thread believing that it's inevitable before someone gets attacked, yet they overlook the possibility that it's just as likely to be themselves.
"Let's do it before somebody else gets bit"
???
If one dive op is chumming, everybody suffers the same fate. The bull sharks they are chumming are free to be found on dives ran by other operators, the chummed sharks aren't taken out of the water by the chumming operator at the end of the dive.
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