On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:42:04 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

On Feb 26, 7:13?am, wrote:
The truly stupid will find ways to kill themselves, no matter how much
we try to protect them from themselves..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,332514,00.html

Hope the captain goes down for manslaughter....


Looks like he outlines the risks fairly explicitly in his promotional
material:

http://www.scuba-adventures.com/baha...s.shtml#sharks

If folks signing up for this adventure sign a release that says, "I
know swimming with baited sharks is a very risky activity, one in
which I could be injured or killed, but I want to do it anyway..."

At what point does the diver, mountain climber, skydiver, hang glider,
etc accept personal responsibility for the risks of his or her chosen
pastime? Should the legal system "nanny" everybody all the time?

Only if the dive operator claimed that the activity was entirely safe
and that normal reasonable people should undertake it, (rather than,
as the website notes, those looking for an extreme experience) would
he be at serious risk for criminal or maybe even successful civil
prosecution. IMO.

"I never understood why anyone would go to the trouble to write a
novel when you can just go out and buy one for a few bucks."
-lpogoda

That's how I feel about sharks. Buy a DVD of somebody else getting
mauled.

--Vic