

The Effect of Chumming and Bait Diving on Shark Behavior
Almost 10 years ago in Sham el-Sheikh, Egypt, shark incidents occurred that threw the tourist population into mass panic. Four, poor-outcome, human shark encounters occurred within a span of two days. This is unusual, to say the least. The sharks caught up in this unfortunate mix up were revealed to be Oceanic White Tips, abundant in the Red Sea (where the attacks took place). Of the species found in the Red Sea, these sharks are shyer, so the mass panic that followed the inc