by MegaDude 24 Replies latest jw friends
Now that you have time on your hands because you're not a JW anymore, here is an amazing experience to add to your to-do list before you take the dirt nap.
Video by super photographer Eric Cheng.
http://echeng.com/video/TigerBeach2-480-low.wmv
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4021480117524944318&q=eric+cheng&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7559571710800445125&q=eric+cheng&hl=en
They're just so friendly and petable.
This trip leaves out of Miami with Jim Abernathy and hangs out around the Bahamas.
Wow, I can't believe they were so close.
Hate to be a kill joy but i have to say that I disagree with that kind of "nature tourism". In one of the vids it clearly shows fish heads in the water, food brought along to bait the sharks into coming close for the tourists. What happens in situations like this is that the sharks begin to associate food and feeding with human beings.
This in turn is harmful to both sides of the equation, one its dangerous for unwary humans who might be miles away and end up getting cruised and maybe attacked by an "educated" shark and two its dangerous for the sharks because they will be drawn to swimming humans who out of fear with attempt to have them destroyed.
There are calls from all over the world to stop this kind of thing.
Oh ya.......that looks like REAL fun.........until you see those jagged edge teeth drop down to attack mode.
C'mon, Mary! The Bahamas beckon, hon! ROFLMAO!
C'mon, Mary! The Bahamas beckon, hon!
Riiiiight......this would be my fate the second I went in the waters.......
I agree it's an adventure off the beaten path but it's not as dangerous as the Discovery Channel would have you believe.
http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=132354&highlight=abernathy
The above link has some posts about people who have been on the trip, some pretty nice pics. One of the posters on the thread is a lawyer who took his two kids diving with the sharks in the video. They loved it! Scuba diving is an amazing adventure.
If you check out the behaviour of the tiger shark in the vid at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4021480117524944318&q=eric+cheng&hl=en you'll note it swims past a group of divers and then gets real up close to a lone diver in the background. That shark is actually checking the diver out and thinking "can i eat him ?"
Taken from Wikipedia:
The tiger shark is second only to the great white in number of recorded human fatalities [2] and is considered, along with the great white, bull shark and the oceanic whitetip shark to be one of the most dangerous to humans. [3]
OK, MegaDude I'll go......but I'm bringin' this guy along as shark bait.....
