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Comments on: Darwin Award Candidate https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34560 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:25:04 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34560 This is what is meant by “more dollars than sense” which only works when spoken.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34540 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:52:41 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34540 Ah, those Austrian tourists. I spent a summer in Austria… but that’s another story. Memo to self: when diving, ditch the Lederhosen… they may be the vector that carries the insanity. I don’t think this is what someone means when they say they’re going diving with a chum.

]]> By: fallenmonk https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34538 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:09:53 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34538 As you say, any reasonably experienced diver or shark enthusiast would know better than to swim when sharks are feeding. This guy was obviously stupid or so cock sure of himself that his ego overrode his brain. I have spent a lot of time in the water with sharks in my five years of diving in Hawaii but I made a swift retreat if I saw someone spear fishing or if a shark made a kill and I sure as hell didn’t swim with the schools of fish.

]]> By: Cookie Jill https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34528 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:36:56 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34528 I think it’s called “entitlement” thinking.
I see it here in the land of $1.3mil MEDIAN priced homes all the time.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34524 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:11:11 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34524 There is definitely a mental health crisis in progress, if people are flying halfway around the world and paying big money to do things like this.

]]> By: Cookie Jill https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34520 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:32:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34520 yep. keep up on my shark biting episodes via one of my favorite “little blogs”…

http://swimatyourownrisk.com/

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34519 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:22:02 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34519 Having been an occasional diver, having lived along the Gulf for decades, the entire premise is insane to me. You don’t spear fish if there are predators around, much less chum the waters.

They seem to have been in international waters, or they would have come under Florida laws which haven’t been “friendly” to even shark tours, much less this sort of thing.

If you are a shark enthusiast, you surely would understand what the reaction would be to the practice.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/comment-page-1/#comment-34517 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:01:23 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2008/02/25/darwin-award-candidate/#comment-34517 How can a company even offer such a “service”?

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