I do not eat sea food of spear any type of fish apart from lionfish (Hawian sling) here in the Bahamas where they are an invasive species. I sometimes have 20 sharks following me around patiently waiting. I have probably done 1000 dives with these particular sharks before getting this relationship ship with them. Please don't try this yourself.
You will notice the shark takes a couple of attempts to bite it. They have learned to bite in in such a way that they don't get pricked by the spines. A lot of people think that this teaches the sharks to associate divers with food. It doesn't. I can scuba dive/free dive and snorkel with them and they just don't care about me, but if enter the water with a SPEAR they instantly recognize the OBJECT. So they associate the object with the food not the diver. Sharks are far more intelligent than we give them credit for. ✌ People think that lion fish harm the sharks, they do not. Lionfish are venomous NOT poisonous. The sharks seem impervious to the digested venom. Never have I injured a single shark. I spend a lot of time helping them and removing fishing line from their mouths and would never do anything to hurt a shark.
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