The IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group
Shark News 11: July 1998
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Chumming the Elphinstone wreck, Egypt
Christian Wagner, who took a diving holiday on a liveaboard in the
Red Sea at the end of last year, wrote to Sport Diver with news of a dive
boat seen baiting a 4 m oceanic whitetip shark from its dive platform
in order to enable the shark's mouth to be photographed out of the
water. This activity was underway while Wagner was swimming back
to his own dive boat some 25 m away. He reports he was "glad to
cuddle the dive boat's propellor" as the shark headed in his direction.
He concluded: "next time you dive the Elphinstone keep your eyes
behind you, as there is an oceanic whitetip that has been trained
to bite meat that hangs from a dive platform." Egyptian authorities
were informed.
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