Profit Gainers

As said before, the people who are gaining all the profit from shark cage diving are not aware that later on it will backfire on them and they will lose as much profit as they gain when they realise they have chased away most of the people in that area. Stores on the beach front will lose business, as well as the hotels and guesthouses where the shark cage diving companies will get most of their income and customers from.

So in the end, who is the shark cage diving benefitting anyway. It is an unhealthy business that will be eventually shut down when more people start to realize this. This campaign is the start of it, fighting for the well being of our sharks. People need to come to terms with the fact that even though sharks appear dangerous and aggressive, this is mostly because they are aggravated to be this way. Not to say they aren’t predators, but they wouldn’t harm as many people if we didn’t harm them in the first place. Removing aggravating experiences like cage diving and chumming would surely decrease the amount of attacks.

Studying the animal is logical and understandable since they are so mysterious and so little is known about them, but surely a safer, more considerate way can be resolved where we don’t have to bother the animals. If we are able to free dive with them then a cage shouldn’t be necessary, it should be banned all together.

Corbis, 2011. Great White Shark. [image online] Available at: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/06/06/heavy-metal-under-the-sea-sharks-act-calmer-when-listening-to-acdc/ [accessed 21 April 2012]