thanks for the reply and insults. As usual there are those who have nothing positive to add. I apologize for asking questions that may be way below your standards. I shall not make that mistake again.
I wouldn't go so far as to call it an insult. The remark was perhaps a little rude, but some people get like that hiding behind keyboards & usernames. Such is the anonymity of the internet.
I asked the owner of Scubaboard about the idea of locking old threads but he replied they are available for good reason, and I am sure that you had to click the box affirming that you realized that you were resurrecting a very old thread. There have been some other threads on cuda attacks here recently so I figured it was along those lines.
Dive watches that are made of stainless steel are still used by the watch industry. Should I be concerned about wearing these types of watches when diving? From what I have been reading, that might be a bad idea. If anyone is an expert on fish behavior, please feel free to chime in.
You did limit yourself on invited responses there. Experts on fish behavior are kinda rare as compared to the large numbers of experienced divers who have well educated opinions on such. I do know a fellow here who lost a large part of his face and nearly his life to a cuda strike off of Utila, not a great place for high tech trauma care but he survived the medical evac to his home town of Houston which is and is doing well today; he is an expert on fishes but you don't see him posting here much. Here is his story here on SB:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/marine-life-ecosystems/33429-barracuda-attack.html
If I may offer my not so well educated opinion, cuda attacks are rare but common enough when shiny or mirror like objects are involved with divers that I avoid wearing anything that might remind a cuda's primitive instincts of a shiny little fish. I remember one story a few years ago of a lady on a boat being attacked by one that came out of the water, or so the news report went. If you google
barracuda attacks on humans, you get a lot of news stories and articles for whatever they may actually be worth. Anytime I see a lady diver on a boat with shiny earrings, I ask if she plans to wear those
barracuda lures on the dive in hopes of politely suggesting that it's risky, but of course they always do; they should have been left in the room safe IMO, but once they are worn onto the boat, they're going to be worn in of course.
This slightly different
google search brought up more stories, some horrible. Anyway, as an old farmer/cowboy, I like cheap, black plastic, waterproof watches that take abuse and tell time well, and nowadays I like the same watches rated to 300 feet deep. Whether you want to wear a cuda lure on your wrist or not is your call. I suspect that cudas kill a lot more people worldwide who eat them than by those struck by them, but some people keep eating them anyway.