Austrian scuba diver Marcus Groh, a 49 year old lawyer, died this past Monday after being bitten by a shark in open water off the Bahamas. This would be a simple tragedy if it weren't for the fact that Mr. Groh made the active and "informed" decision to swim around with shark bait in shark infested waters. He was on a shark dive run by Scuba Adventures where chum is thrown into the water to attract sharks so that divers can get close to them... and the divers don't stay in a cage. That's the point of the whole exercise. The divers get close to real live sharks WHILE THEY ARE FEEDING. I'll bet that Scuba Adventures sees business increase as a result of this story. Many people like to flirt with danger and even death. The fact is that the odds of being hurt or killed on a shark dive are pretty low, less than 1% from what I've read. Nonetheless there ought to be a class of Darwin Awards set aside specifically for shark divers. Seriously now.

Here are some links to the story:

Greta Van Susteren on Fox
Mike Celizic on MSNBC

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