If this isn’t Darwinism at Work…
Shark encounters criticized after diver dies in attack — South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
The Riviera Beach dive company involved in a fatal shark attack off the Bahamas this weekend offers clients the opportunity for uncaged encounters with tiger sharks and great hammerheads, fearsome ocean predators known to attack people.On a dive Sunday from the 65-foot boat Shear Water, which the company’s Web site said was on a shark expedition, something went wrong. A shark sank its teeth into the leg of Markus Groh, 49, a lawyer from Vienna, Austria. A mayday call went out at about 10 a.m., and the Coast Guard airlifted him to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he died.
No one was able to identify the species of shark that attacked, said Petty Officer Nick Ameen. The circumstances of the attack are unclear, and the Coast Guard is investigating. But the incident has drawn more attention to the dive company and its practice of shark feeding, a common procedure in which tour operators dump bloody fish parts into the water to attract sharks.
So, take me on a vacation where you put me out to sea with no cage or other protection, and then dump bloody fish parts in the water to attract dangerous man-eating sharks. What could possibly go wrong?
Filed under: anti-socialism, ya think? | Comment (1)“Him working with tiger sharks and bull sharks uncaged is totally irresponsible and dangerous,” [Neal Watson, president of the Bahamas Diving Association] said. “It wasn’t a matter of ‘if,’ it was a matter of ‘when.’”
One Response to “If this isn’t Darwinism at Work…”
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Pilikia on
February 27, 2008 1:12 pm
I think you missed a whole other layer of funny here hovering somewhere around “shark bites lawyer”. I mean c’mon, where’s the professional courtesy we’ve heard so much about?
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