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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------FFEE2948AF8D6D2F50CF5EA8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------FFEE2948AF8D6D2F50CF5EA8 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <3B84F675.47CC845D@be*.ne*> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:26:29 -0400 From: Klaus and Debbie Boehmke <dboehmke@be*.ne*> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-bls40 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "g.wentland" <wentland@no*.ed*> Subject: Re: Media blames divers for shark attacks References: <104.811a276.28b579bc@ao*.co*> <001401c12b8f$4c58f2e0$30c83489@h3*> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the Miami Fl. area there are many wrecks. Some of these wrecks are notorious for bull sharks. All one has to do is fire a spear gun and instantly a bull will appear. This is their dinner bell. What is the difference between attracting sharks with frozen chum or bait or attracting them with the sound of a speargon? When the shark appears ,what does he see? A diver. Does't the shark associate the sound of a speargun with a diver. If you ban shark feeds, then you must ban spearfishig. Unfortunately due to the large percentage of spearfishermen versus the small amount of divers that attend shark feeds, this will never happen. Klaus "g.wentland" wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. --------------FFEE2948AF8D6D2F50CF5EA8-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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