Saturday, May 15, 2010

Spearing a nurse shark?


Ken Navaroli - owner of Boca Dive shop with Nurse Shark

Posted on ScubaBoard was a long discussion about the dive shop Boca Dive and particularly a photo (see above) that was on the shop's website under the spearfishing section.  It depicts the owner with a small nurse shark - apparently wounded from a spear - this is illegal in Florida waters.  

The photo has since been removed from the website, however, the threads are still there for you to read (here and here) so you can make up your own opinion...

I definitely do not condemn spearfishing (I have done it, and still do it occasionally). However, it should be done responsibly - but the above is really just unacceptable... 

1 comment:

Wolfgang Leander said...

Few animals look as unpleasant, and dumb, as this macho-man....