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Originally Posted by Sly
What kind of sharks are they?
Damn... I am becoming such an environmentalist, LOL. The whole idea is very cool, but thinking about what that kind of conditioning is doing to those sharks can't be good.
Anyway, I'm glad you made it out alive. :-)
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They are Caribbean Reef Sharks, even though Nassau is not technically in the Caribbean. I looked up their distribution on wikipedia and found this: "Florida to Brazil. Fished out of many areas but still abundant in the Bahamas where some degree of protection has been granted due to tourist dollars being generated by shark feeds."
I had some quasi-environmentalist-morality issues with going on a shark feed - I remember denouncing the sharks feeds in Florida ten years ago because I thought it would teach the sharks to associate people with dinner and hapless swimmers would end up getting bit. But, the urge to be around sharks overshadowed my moral tendencies and I decided to go. At least I feel a little better knowing that it's partly the shark feeds that keep them from going on the endangered species list.