Jay D'Bee,
I just heard that Johnny(sp?)Cochrane(sp?)(Remember Oj's Dream Team?) is representing the gentleman who was attacked by a shark recently in the Bahamas. The site was Freeport on Grand Bahama. Who will be the defendant(s)? Dive shop(s) that offer shark dives in the Bahamas!
Now, this ought to be exciting.
There is a fellow named Diamond who lives, I think, in Florida and he has tried to stop shark dives there. I think he is expecting to be a plaintiff's witness. Oh, and he purports to have been diving for ca. 30 years; so he is one of us, not some anti-scuba nut.
Walter, this would be a good spot for you to add some wisdom. I have only been on shark dives in the Bahamas--seen lots of other sharks on lots of other dives, though--and never felt "threatened". But I do not know if there is any correlation between shark dives and an increase in unprovoked attacks on swimmers, surfers, divers, etc. Have the shark dives in Florida led to an increase in "incidents"?
The good DocVikingo gave us a primer on shark attacks, but it did not address the specific statistics I am curious about. Doc, are you out there?
By the way, the jurisdiction, it seems to me, will have to be the Bahamas and those islands rake in a lot of dollars from shark dives. So, it might be a tough slog for Johnny. However, who knows what he might pull off?
Hmmmmm, wasn't it you, jdb, that started this whole legal thing? What could possibly have had in mind?
Oops, the grandson is going through the roof--gotta go.
Joewr
I just heard that Johnny(sp?)Cochrane(sp?)(Remember Oj's Dream Team?) is representing the gentleman who was attacked by a shark recently in the Bahamas. The site was Freeport on Grand Bahama. Who will be the defendant(s)? Dive shop(s) that offer shark dives in the Bahamas!
Now, this ought to be exciting.
There is a fellow named Diamond who lives, I think, in Florida and he has tried to stop shark dives there. I think he is expecting to be a plaintiff's witness. Oh, and he purports to have been diving for ca. 30 years; so he is one of us, not some anti-scuba nut.
Walter, this would be a good spot for you to add some wisdom. I have only been on shark dives in the Bahamas--seen lots of other sharks on lots of other dives, though--and never felt "threatened". But I do not know if there is any correlation between shark dives and an increase in unprovoked attacks on swimmers, surfers, divers, etc. Have the shark dives in Florida led to an increase in "incidents"?
The good DocVikingo gave us a primer on shark attacks, but it did not address the specific statistics I am curious about. Doc, are you out there?
By the way, the jurisdiction, it seems to me, will have to be the Bahamas and those islands rake in a lot of dollars from shark dives. So, it might be a tough slog for Johnny. However, who knows what he might pull off?
Hmmmmm, wasn't it you, jdb, that started this whole legal thing? What could possibly have had in mind?
Oops, the grandson is going through the roof--gotta go.
Joewr