By AMY MILNE – The Southland Times
Last updated 05:00 29/12/2009

A group of southern paua divers is concerned its members’ lives are being endangered by a shark tourism operation in Foveaux Strait.

The divers are worried the Great White Southern Dive Company operation will encourage shark attacks and endanger divers. The company runs caged diving trips to view sharks.

They claim the company drops minced tuna into the sea to attract the sharks – a practice known as chumming – and are concerned this may modify the great whites’ behaviour.

Paua Management Area Council 5 chairman Storm Stanley said divers were really worried. “We feel there’s a real danger,” he said.

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