Shark feeding--------a return to Yellowstone?...Cole Farris - Master DiverSeptember 28, 2003 at 23:55:38For those of you too young to remember the Yellowstone National Park bear-feeding disaster, shark-feeding is Yellowstone II - the sequel. In the
name of tourism, people fed large, predatory animals with the ability to tear them to shreds (you divers know of any ocean-dwelling fish like that?). It got to the point where putting a human in the general vicinity of bears was like ringing the dinner bell. Some bears would actually climb onto the cars and wait to be fed (but of course, that's not altered behavior, just their natural inclination to bask on top of sheet metal during the summer months). The only reason there weren't more accidents was the fact that the people were in cars (unfortunately, most divers don't have access to submarines....damn!). Shark-feeding is simply Yellowstone revisited. I would hope we had learned the lessons of the past, instead of caving in to dive operators (and some parts of the dive industry) in the name of "eco-education". Whatever the reason given, the motive is money. If there was more
money to be had by "not" feeding sharks, these people would be on the other side of the issue. | 
