More Sharks

The nurse sharks seen all around this area are theoretically non aggressive.  Tucker Rolle, who owns Compass  Cay  and its marina calls  the ones around his docks "pets".  We fed them our left over Christmas turkey carcass as I declined to make soup (again).  They inhaled it in big, big bites.  The bones presented no problem at all. It is a kick to feed them as they circle about and swim over one another to get at the food.  jacks and bone fish swim all around them and sometimes beat them to a morsel.  One shark always swims up to the surface and opens his mouth like a baby bird.  It is all sort of endearing so maybe they are a bit like pets.   However, we watched a young man dangle a fish skeleton over the water dipping it and then trying to pull it away.  One of these "pets" got  the carcass in its mouth and tore it in half in less than a second.  He came a few feet out of the water to accomplish this.   I can buy the  non aggressive status but I still am not interested in swimming with these guys.  Tucker  landed this small lemon shark right in the marina during the early evening.   I am not sure why nurse sharks are welcome and lemon sharks not but so it is.   Plenty of excitement during that happy hour!