Pete,
This whole Shark Diving evolution has caught many of us by surprise......and it has challenged many of our long time assumptions....challenged the Folk Wisdom or long accepted stereotypes....
Even very long time divers like myself, that have waded in to this issue deeply, have been forced to experience first hand that the ideas we held for decades, were just plain wrong.
As you no doubt remember, I was pretty obnoxious about Randy and his ideas on Shark feeding dives....but on getting much more deeply involved in this issue, you and everyone else saw me change my position, apologize to Randy, and then maintain an entirely different stance from then on.
I don't know John Russell, but I think it would help to get all the facts in plain view.....and if John would like to see how Jim runs a shark dive, I imagine that would be easy enough for me to arrange. And while Jim uses a different procedure than does Randy, Jim was one of the first experts to tell me I was dead wrong in suggesting that Randy was endangering people.
I can't say I recall reading any of John Russell's negative posts....???
---------- Post added July 23rd, 2014 at 10:33 AM ----------
OK...I just pulled John Russell up on Facebook.....he and his Florida Association of Diving Instructors ( who are these guys?) appear to be on a mission against Shark diving.
And just as apparent, John is still using fictitious accounts of the incident to stir up others that don't like shark diving.
After reading about 20 of his posts, the only thing I am surprised at, is that he did not just say that Randy and Jimmy have had hundreds of divers killed during their shark dives.....it would be a really powerful claim, and since we can see he could care less about being truthful, it would make sense for him to say this !
" These guys have killed dozens of divers.....no, hundreds of divers.....no, thousands of divers...yeah, thousands of divers...that's the ticket, they've killed thousands of divers on their shark feeds!" Pathological Liar from Saturday Night Live. See this, and read future posts by John Russell or Neil Watson of the Bahamian Diving Association -- with this in mind
[video=youtube_share;pkYNBwCEeH4]http://youtu.be/pkYNBwCEeH4[/video]
Jon Lovitz Appears as the Pathological Liar on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show - YouTube