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rexman24:I am a minimally experienced diver(21 dives) and have encountered nurse and caribbean reef sharks while diving, it was a great experience and they were in no way agressive.
If you want to overcome any unrealistic fear of them I highly recommend the shark feeding dive by Stuart Coves-Nassau, Bahamas. I did this last spring and it was a great time and a definate rush. The first dive you are on a wall dive and there are 5-6 hanging around at a distance. For the surface interval they come up to the boat in anticipation. For the feed, you kneel on the bottem and 10-15 4-8 ft. reef sharks swim all around you, touch you with their fin tips, swim between your legs, etc. They never were real aggresive, but they do speed up when the food comes out of the box.
There are 3-4 species that I dont think I would go out of my way to be in the water with (bull, gwhite, tiger, mako) but maybe someday if it felt right!
For me the thrill overcomes the fear, like alot of other things Ive done(auto racing, sky diving, mountain climbing).
rexman24:es601-I see your point but the reason I think its unrealistic is because of the mathmatical chances of it happening. Everyone who goes in the ocean has those thoughts at one time or another. If you let your mind pursue that train of thought, as has been pointed out, you would never-
get in your car, get on the plane to go to the dive spots, get on the boat to take you to the dive spots, cross a street, go outside-lightning bees etc,
in short if you take that way of thinking to the logical conclusion, youre better off not being alive because its dangerous, no matter what your doing.
if you lived in a big plastic ball filled with styrofoam it would be pretty safe but it wouldnt be to much fun would it?
just my take on it.
I think it is unrealistic to think that the trained puppies that you fed in the bahama's (on my schedule for next year) compares to the rogue shark that comes in out of nowhere, might not have had an easy meal in a couple of days and possibly has a few screws loose. I have no meat on a stick for him and my (2) children at my side
I'm sure it could be arranged if you did a David Blaine style "give me money for my crazy antics" thing. LOL!!!Well that depends could you squeeze Jessica Alba in there with me?