Shark Dive gone Horribly Sour

[sean22]

Maybe the captain should look for road-kill before his next charter. Nothing like a semi-fresh skunk! His "nothing wasted" decision makes you wonder about his concern for the divers on board.

Not to mention that use of any marine mammal dead or alive as bait is a Federal Violation!

 

[jchaplain]

Not to mention that use of any marine mammal dead or alive as bait is a Federal Violation!

If I were on that boat I would guarantee that I would have *****ing that captain out....I would have told him if he kept making people sick with that crap he wouldn't have gotten paid...etc......

What good is it making everyone sick? Sick people cant dive....aside from the federal law violation.....he sounds like a real winner. You guys shouldn't have put up with it.

 

[Cecil]

Sean do you have a site for that. Harrassing a live marine mammal is a violation, but mutilating a dead carcass, I doubt.

 

[ScubaSarus]

You guys hit it on the money. I feel a partial refund should have been given and his (the captain's) judgement was poor. I would like to know more on the violation if possible. He was a well seasoned captain and doubt he'd knowingly violate a federal law. But I don't know. The whole trip was video taped and diaried by the New Haven Register Reporter. I understand there will be an article in the New Haven Register about this trip and focusing on the carcass.

 

[sean22]

Sean do you have a site for that. Harrassing a live marine mammal is a violation, but mutilating a dead carcass, I doubt.

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/laws/MMPA/MMPA.html

I think it might fall under the part about use and importation of Marine Mammal Parts
which is referred to in one of the sections. Although I do agree with you, in that I doubt anyone would be brought into court for using a carcass as chum.

 

[matt_unique]

That is a hard core fisherman to haul up a nasty carcass and chop it up. I wouldn't go near it.....let's just go ahead and use the chum sealed in an air-tight bucket thank you

--Matt

 

[adshepard]

He asked if the captain still gives you a stick with a nail on it to fend off the sharks.


DSDO

Alan

 

[ScubaSarus]

No nail. Just a 2-3ft thick wooden stick (snow shovel handle?) with a lanyard (wrist strap on it). You can attach the strap to a clip various clips located about the cage.

 

[johnnyseko]

WOW!!!! So sorry to hear this...... I was thinking about shark diving all w/end because I wanted to go. Thinking it should be something for the near future. Now I know who not to go with!

Maybe the smell of that thing drove the sharks away?!?!

 

[Santa]

Kinda reminds me of a story of a pie-eating contest gone terribly sour - that was a Steven King horror though.

regards