What??? Last year NO Scuba diver in Florida waters was bitten. None, nada and squat. If you do the extrapolation, that means that they actually aren't getting bit.
You almost seem proud of your shark attack standings? Ever wonder if the booming shark dive business has any impact on shark attacks in the vicinity? You guys sure cant claim low averages over there close to the "feeding sites"... I get your argument and i don't disagree entirely, i just feel like we have a precedent to follow with *cough* every single other remotely comparable species *cough* and we know where this goes. A couple people will die, a few more hurt and a bunch of sharks killed.
We cant change the habits of wild animals without consequences.
You've actually witnessed this happening in the Gulf? You can say unequivocally that the sharks there are more aggressive then they were ten years ago?
Unequivocal is tough if not impossible but yes, i can say without doubt that they are more aggressive. The stories that are told are downright shocking sometimes and more are added all the time. I have personally been chased to the boat by a pack, yes a pack of 10 seriously turned up reef sharks. Nipping at my fins and buzzing our heads the whole way to the ladder. Clipped my EMPTY bag, stringer, gun to a line tied off to a cleat and they hit it!! Took it down and shredded the rope, all i got back was my custom gun and only because it could float!
Do i think this instance was from shark dives? No, I do not.
Do i think that pack would have tried to eat anything they came across? Hell yes i do but the main point to take away here is i was most certainly on the menu. They were trying to eat me and i can say the same for at least 3 other sharks in the last couple of years. They will, in the right situation, enjoy the **** out of eating a person.
Ill even take you diving if you want to see, give me three drops and if i cant get a shark to follow us without dead fish then i will pay for your gas.
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My dog.
Who am I kidding, the damn dog knows what time it is, and sits next to his dinner bowl every day at 8 in the morning and 5 o'clock at night.
My pups are on the same schedule lol.
I also have a pack of geckos that turn my bathroom window into a moth killing field every night. They wait for the light to attract and boom, lunch is served.
But no way sharks could link people to food.