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Shark tour leader was warned of danger, diver says
WTF? We aren't talking swimming with dolphins here, but sharks!?!? If you are dumb enough to pay money to swim unprotected with such efficient killing machines, you deserve what you get.
Shark tour leader was warned of danger, diver says
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MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The leader of a shark tour whose customer was mauled to death Saturday was warned that his practice of allowing people to swim close to hungry sharks could lead to tragedy, a colleague said.
Shark feeding was banned in Florida in 2001, so dive operators take customers out to Bahamian waters.
Markus Groh -- an Austrian lawyer -- died after being gnawed during a dive led by Jim Abernethy's south Florida company.
Groh, 49, died from loss of blood resulting from the shark attack near the Bahamas, The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office said.
Neal Watson, a president of the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. Diving Association, told CNN he implored Abernethy to stop what Watson considered a dangerous practice: Cageless shark dives specifically targeting dangerous shark species.
"I hate to say I told you so out of respect for the victim's family, but I've always said it wasn't a matter of whether something like this would happen, it was when," he said.
Abernethy did not return phone calls from CNN seeking comment. The shark dives are advertised on the Web site of his company, Jim Abernethy's Scuba Adventures.
"Abernethy has been swimming with sharks almost his entire life, and is a pioneer in diving with tiger and great hammerhead sharks," the site proclaims. "No one can get you closer, or get you the best photographic opportunities!"
In shark-dive excursions, dead fish and fish entrails are used to attract the sharks and bring them close to the divers. Cageless dives put divers and sharks in close proximity, without a metal underwater cage protecting the diver.[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.
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02.27.2008
Let's go play with Sharks today .... 
Desperado ~ one well seasoned driver 
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