Shark tour leader was warned of danger Posted: 9 months ago by moe
The guy who's customer died of a shark attack was warned seven months ago to immediately cease and desist conducting open-water, non-cage shark diving experiences with known species of potentially dangerous sharks. IMO he is guilty of criminally negligent homicide at the very least.
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Posted: 9 months ago by xenity7:
You have to wonder about the culpability of the people who actually bought the tours though. It's no secret sharks are dangerous with chum in the water, I'd expect anyone considering actually DOING it to know that even better than I do. So yeah, it's his fault, but it's not like he took someone who had no idea of the risk.
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Posted: 9 months ago by moe:
Indeed that is true...however...I am not a field expert on shark behavior. If I with a lot of money wanted to see sharks like that, I would hire such an expert. If then said expert told me that it was OK to go into the water, one could/should expect relative safety based on the expert's opinion.
However when the expert in question was warned by other experts and continued regardless to allow customers to enter the environment, that I believe is criminal.
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Posted: 9 months ago by xenity7:
« moe : Indeed that is true...however...I am not a field expert on shark behavior. If I with a lot of money wanted to see sharks like that, I would hire such an expert. If then said expert told me that it was OK to go into the water, one could/should expect relative safety based on the expert's opinion.
However when the expert in question was warned by other experts and continued regardless to allow customers to enter the environment, that I believe is criminal. I think your mistake would be thinking a guy who operates a charter boat is "an expert". I've chartered dive boats before and while the guys who run them are great they aren't scientists, they're just guys with boats who like to dive and know all the good spots.
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Posted: 9 months ago by moe:
That may be knowledge that you have, but I am sure that the owner did not describe his business like that to paying customers.
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Posted: 9 months ago by dollyllama:
It always pays to do your homework.
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Posted: 9 months ago by chinook:
« dollyllama : It always pays to do your homework. That's what I was thinking. If I'm going to do something potentially quite dangerous, I want to make sure I'm going about it in the safest manner possible!
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Posted: 9 months ago by xenity7:
« moe : That may be knowledge that you have, but I am sure that the owner did not describe his business like that to paying customers. True. That's one of many reasons he'll probably go to prison. (I wasn't really disagreeing with your original post)
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