{"id":19618,"date":"2012-03-20T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19618"},"modified":"2012-03-20T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:09:20","slug":"diver-gets-friendly-shark-greeting-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/diver-gets-friendly-shark-greeting-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Diver Gets Friendly Shark Greeting In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19619\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19619\" title=\"Copyright News Group Newspapers Ltd.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shark-greeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shark-greeting.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/shark-greeting-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: News Group Newspapers Ltd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eli Martinez was swimming off the coast of the Bahamas when a lemon shark started making its way towards him.<\/p>\n<p>But the usually ferocious fish turned away at the last minute, leaving a fin outstretched for a friendly greeting.<\/p>\n<p>Eli, who is the editor of Shark Diving magazine, said: &#8220;It was beautiful being on the seabed with all these majestic sharks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been on many shark dives, so wasn&#8217;t fazed at all by the presence of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Martinez was swimming in the waters of the Bahamas when a lemon shark came towards him, turned and outstretched a fin, giving the diver a friendly high-five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[53,70],"class_list":["post-19618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-diving","tag-ocean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}