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Swimming With Sharks, and Paying for It
Topic Started: Jun 25 2006, 11:41 AM (78 Views)
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Swimming With Sharks, and Paying for It

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175548,00.html


LOS ANGELES — One hundred and fifty miles off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, lies Shark Central.

Isla Guadalupe has 22 miles of blue island waters swarming with great white sharks — and tourist boats.

"It's pretty much the only place in the world where you can take a trip and pretty much know that you're going to see sharks," says Martin Graf, president of Graf Diving in San Diego.

To get an up-close look, adventure-seeking passengers are lowered into the crystal-clear waters in shark cages. The crew spreads bloody hunks of bait all around, and then you wait.

"You have certain things in life that are on your list of things to do," says eco-tourist Ted Haines, "and being in a cage and watching a great white shark feed was definitely one of them for me."

Customers pay thousands of dollars for the great white thrill ride, but some marine researchers worry there may be serious consequences.

"It is one of the most basic tenets of wildlife care that you do not feed wild animals, because it alters their behavior," explains Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif.

"They begin to lose their natural reticence, indifference, maybe even aversion, to humans and begin to associate them with food, perhaps."
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I agree with Sean Van Sommeran Jezzie.

Once any species know that it is going to have food from a certain area they do lose their natural instinct to forage for it.
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