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Marine mammals have a higher degree of intelligence than sharks. Sharks are
FISH.
If you are looking for a better analogy, try this one: You feed fish in
a tank every day by holding your hand above the tank and drop food into the
tank. The fish will come up to eat the food. Then one day you hold your hand
above the tank without food. The fish still come to the top to look for
food. The hand above the tank triggers a response.
When people jump into the water and feed fish. Fish will eventually
associate the jumping into water as a trigger that they will be fed and will
come looking for food. Sharks may not associate people AS food, but feeding
them regularly will cause sharks to be attracted to the vicinity of people
to look for food.
To try to associate the current shark attacks with the small scale shark
feeding dives going on is ridiculous.
I have dived in the area off Freeport, Bahamas by the recompression
chamber where sharks are routinely fed. They have been feeding sharks in
this area for many years. I had no food with me. When I entered the water,
the sharks did not rush in to eat me. They were in the area. They did not
exhibit a great fear of me, though they would not allow me to get into arms
reach. Most sharks that are fed by divers are scavengers (Reef or Nurse
sharks) and feeding them does not make them a predator.
Maybe we would be better off outlawing spear fishing. It could be said
that these divers are the main feeders of Bull & Tiger Sharks. It is not an
unusual occurrence for a fish to be speared by diver only to have a bull
shark rush in for a meal.
Good Diving,
Bye,
George
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