Nah!

It's like this:

Feeder:  Free food, free food.
Nurse shark:  Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!  Lemme have some.
Bull shark:  Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!  Lemme have some.
Feeder:  NO!  You're a bull shark.  You can't have any.
Bull shark:  Thats not fair!  You are prejudiced.  I am going to sue.

No one intentionally feeds Bull Sharks but if they show up.....

But seriously, no one can say why, but for sure there are a lot more shark
sightings and they are alot more aggressive and it is definitely in areas
proximate to where they are doing the feedings.  While I agree you can't
really attribute this to feedings in a scientific sense, who is to say that
a shark is incapapable of a "Pavlovian" response?  I would think it is a
gray area that needs study.

Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Elmore <elmorec@at*.ne*>
To: Tech Diver List <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: Dives This Weekend


> So the feedings get them used to humans=food and they become more
agressive,
> right? Then where are the Bulls getting fed to learn this behavior?
"Hurry,
> hurry, hurry! Step right up and sign up for the bull shark feeding dives!
> (payment in advance please)". Hmmmmm... I doubt it. Maybe they get to
> talking with the reef sharks at the bar after work and learn it there.
> Bull: "No shit, they just sit on the bottom and one of 'em feeds
everyone?"
> Reefy: "I kid you not (sir)"
> Bull: "So how much do they feed ya?"
> Reefy: "They got a little bucket full of fish."
> Bull: "Doesn't sound like much."
> Reefy: "Yeah, but ya don't hafta work for it."
> Bull: "So what happens when they run out and you're still hungry?"
> Reefy: "Well, we just swim off and look for something slow enough to catch
> like always."
> Bull: (pause) "Riiight..."
> C.
>
> Chris Elmore
> PalmettoSoft Technologies Corp.
> (803) 233-2001 (work)
> (803) 348-3055 (mobile)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe <joe@po*.co*>
> To: g.wentland <wentland@no*.ed*>; Tech Diver List
> <techdiver@aquanaut.com>; <MICHAELPIZZIO@cs*.co*>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Dives This Weekend
>
>
> > It  seems that the increase in shark activity correlates with the
feedings
> > and has been getting progressively worse.  This is not hearsay.  Many of
> us
> > have seen this first hand.  They are bolder and more plentiful.  While I
> am
> > sure that they were present all along, they seem to have lost some of
> their
> > normal fear of humans.
> >
> > If it is a territorial / mating issue, what is the season?  They have
> become
> > a year round "problem" here and I am curious as to why has this not
> ocurred
> > in the past?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: g.wentland <wentland@no*.ed*>
> > To: Tech Diver List <techdiver@aquanaut.com>; <MICHAELPIZZIO@cs*.co*>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:00 AM
> > Subject: Re: Dives This Weekend
> >
> >
> > > Okay, whose feeding sharks on the Clinton. (Sarcasm). I would bet that
> it
> > is
> > > a territorial/mating behavior issue. However, I can see some on this
> list
> > > blame this on shark feeding.
> > > Good Diving,
> > > Bye,
> > > George
> > >
> > > >Guys, I hate to say this, and I am not normally an >alarmist, but
there
> > is
> > > a
> > > >real shark problem on the deep wrecks just outside of >Hillsborough
> > Inlet.
> > > I
> > > >was chased out of the water  by three Bulls a week ago >Sunday on the
> > > Clinton,
> > > >saw one 12 footer cruise by and go off, coming back >with his buddies
a
> > > minute
> > > >later, three of them right at me.  For the  first time I saw >the
> arched
> > > back,
> > > >pecks down, shaking dance that you don't want to see.
> > >
> > > >I waited and saw a chance to bailout before any real >deco mounted,
and
> > saw
> > > >one follow me up in the water column till I hit 70 feet.  I, >for
one,
> > wont
> > > go
> > > >back without my newly acquired .223  powerhead, >waiting on the .308.
> If
> > > you
> > > >dive these wrecks, stay in groups and watch your backs >at all times.
> I
> > am
> > > >serious, and those of you that know me know I don't BS.
> > >
> > >
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