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It must be “Shark Week” on the Miami outdoor recreation page.
Pretty-boy journalist Anderson Cooper was, unfortunately, not eaten by great white sharks, as reported by CNN in their “Planet in Peril” special series. Here is the link:
Of course, despite their occasional cannibalism the shark may not have eaten Cooper, recognizing one of their own. He is the child of Gloria Vanderbilt.
In a typical Cooper piece, which invariably focuses on ANDERSON COOPER and (insert topic here: great white sharks), he did find the time to mention the practice of diving with sharks is controversial, as the heavy chumming of sharks in particular areas acclimatizes them to humans and makes them associate humans with food. Cooper’s report was filed in Australia. In 2002 Florida wisely banned “interactive” shark dives (meaning shark dives where the fish were chummed up within arms reach of divers). However, a number of resorts in the nearby Bahamas and Caribbean offer shark dives with predictable results: check out this story on the Florida ban and a tourist who became a hors d’oeurve less than a year ago:
I have seen a Great White in the wild, a specimen over 18 feet long. It was feeding on what was left of a large swordfish or small whale carcass, in the middle of the Gulf Stream. It was a sublime experience. The animal seemed more machine than living creature, and it was the only wild animal I have seen -- including bears, crocodiles, alligators – that took no measure of the presence of man, showed no anxiety, fear, or even acknowledgement. It kept eating. It was nothing to be toyed with. I backed up towards the center of the boat, unconsciously. Ah, Anderson Cooper, of the Great White Hairdo, pity your giblets are not decorating its gullet.
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