Hey... they don't chum the water!!! I've been on their "shark dive" at least three times over the years and not once did they chum the water. Get your facts straight ya fool.

I'm glad to see that the Hotel & Tourism Assoc is going to look into more safety and to maintain certain standards. The ferry incident over near Blue Lagoon was much, much, much more alarming than the shark incident near Sandals. Being in control of a boat, monitoring the waves, wind, and weather, and being able to provide safety procedures during a boat accident are things that should be very common and fairly easy to master for a business/industry and just people in general. Naturally, on the other hand, being in control of sharks is an entirely different ballgame and nearly impossible.

Sharks are extremely vital to the Bahamas... especially from a tourism perspective. In my 30+ years of diving, I've been just about everywhere in the western hemisphere. After much thought and many years of travel, we decided years ago to purchase property and a house in the Bahamas -- primarily because of the incredible scuba diving and the sharks. Trust me, there were other locations we were more interested in buying; however, there weren't any sharks or just not enough to see them regularly. If you cull the shark population (which is absolutely insane and so backwards... it is almost laughable) in your area -- the effect would be significant and severely damaging to the marine environment for generations to come. And for what reason? Keep in mind, more people DIE from car accidents or lightning strikes or dog attacks each year than from sharks.

Ohhhhh please! Posting a sign won't help or prevent something like this from happening. Also, if a tourist "needs" a sign to let them know there might be sharks in the water... then they are freaking idiots. Anyone with at least a 5th grade education or higher should already know that sharks live in the ocean and are a perfectly normal part of the ocean. If there are folks out there that don't already know this fact -- well then that is Darwinism working at its finest. Time to thin the heard!!

@sheeprunner12... what you are suggesting is absolutely insane, uneducated, and to some degree -- already happening. As humans, we slaughter millions and millions of sharks worldwide every single year, which is a appalling. The last time I checked, the sharks live in the ocean. It is their home -- not ours.

I'm sure it was a Tiger shark. So awful and sad.

Yep, for a Christian nation to completely abandon the homeless and less fortunate citizens of other countries that are currently residing here is absolutely appalling and borders on pure evil. Yes... the illegal structures need to go, but you must also offer a solution or alternative. Clearly there is a massive NEED for cheap housing.

How about offering FREE birth control -- condoms, the pill, the morning after pill, etc. This would be a very, very, very EASY and CHEAP first step by the Govt, hospitals, schools, and/or churches.

Bahamianson... your comment is so uneducated it almost has to be a joke. Whether or not Biden or Obama own a house in Nantucket is irrelevant. Ohhh wait, I guess Trump's palace in Palm Beach doesn't count in your mind?

Well said!!!!!