{"id":32738,"date":"2013-03-08T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32738"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:32:02","slug":"bahamas-at-forefront-of-safe-shark-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/bahamas-at-forefront-of-safe-shark-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas At Forefront Of Safe Shark Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32741\" title=\"bimin-bull-run\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimin-bull-run.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimin-bull-run.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimin-bull-run-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimin-bull-run-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>USA &#8211; Safe shark diving is good for tourism; a live shark can be worth &#8220;tens of thousands of dollars&#8221; compared to the &#8220;hundreds&#8221; that can be made by selling its fins. With that in mind an enterprising team of industry experts have created the world&#8217;s first educational dockside shark diving site on the small island of Bimini, Bahamas to help dispel myths and misconceptions of sharks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-32742\" title=\"bimini-bull-run-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimini-bull-run-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimini-bull-run-logo.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimini-bull-run-logo-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bimini-bull-run-logo-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Bimini Bull Run is headquartered at the Bimini Big Game Club, a 30 minute flight from the South Florida and a legendary outpost for fishermen, host to numerous major sport fishing tournaments for more than half a century. At this marina Bull Sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) have regularly visited since the time Hemmingway called Big Game home looking for fresh fish scraps from cleaning tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent news that sharks are disappearing at a rate of 100 million a year globally has rocked the commercial shark diving industry. Safe and educational shark diving sites are needed.<\/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":[9],"tags":[76,52,33],"class_list":["post-32738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-environment-2","tag-sharks","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32738","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=32738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}