Check Out This Blog Dude: Oceanic Dreams

Felix Leander has been swimming with the fishes since he was a child. His passion is not restricted only to the aquarium varieties, but also includes some of the most feared (unjustifiably so) animals in the vast blue sea. He has been blogging about diving with Sharks for a many years and thru his advocacy he's convincing people to turn around their negative perceptions about these intriguing and beautiful creatures. If there's anyone that can separate fact from myth, it's this real life conservationist Aquaman.



His blog, the educating and charmingly titled, Oceanic Dreams, is a meeting point for Shark Lovers of all walks of life. Among the incredible pictures, which he often takes himself while diving with his father Wolf Leander, there's also a diverse range of articles compiled from different blogs, magazines and newspapers across the websphere, including my personal favorite yearly analysis of the highly popular Shark Week series broadcast every year by Discovery Channel.

Here's Felix on feeding Sharks:

To feed or not to feed- that is the question

While I have only occasionally offered a shark a fish carcasse, I normally caress sharks as gently as possible, and never hold on to a fin to get a ride or perform stunts for others.

I am very well aware that touching sharks or other wild animals is debatable, and not everybody accepts my explanation that when I feel attracted to a being, human or animal, I just have the urge to stroke it. Thus, touching a shark is to me no more than a tactile expression of love.

One shark diver who would never interact closely with large tiger sharks, and saw me doing it a few times, has not only gone beyond touching tigers, but keeps hand-feeding them to see how far he can push the envelope to impress fellow divers and especially marveling media folks.

All I can say is that hand-feeding a tiger shark is neither difficult (potentially dangerous - yes) nor necessary. I have decided to quit doing it, also in order to not put my dive shark operator in a compromising position should anything bad happen.

Here is a blog with a magazine article on the subject I find not only very well written but highly informative and as balanced as any report on such sensitive issue can be.


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-NUTA