Chris Shott, ForbesTraveler.com reported in USA Today on some of the World’s Scariest Shark Dives.  You don’t have to be Jacques Cousteau to go scuba diving in shark infested waters.  Just ask his son, fellow sea-explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau: “I took the Duchess of York, who was afraid of water,” he says. “In three days, this incredible lady learned to scuba dive, put a chain-mail suit on, and went and fed sharks in the Bahamas.”

As I previously reported http://www.scubaology.com/archives/2007/08/16/are-we-afraid-yet/ diving with the Great Whites is one of my all-time goals.   Shark diving has become “all the rage” but there is a concern, as the population of sharks decline.  It has been reported that over 100 million sharks were killed last year including the rapid decline of certain species.  Of the 591 sharks and shark related animals many are in question or on the decline. 

Are shark dives good or bad?  Personally, I would rather see the sharks in the natural habitat without being attracted to a group” using chum or dead bait.  So while the seeing a Great White from inside a cage ihas been a goal, it will probably be one I don’t achieve.  I also I don’t see one without a cage either.