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Shark Releasers Pardoned. President Donald Trump has made a gesture of support for the ocean environment by issuing a presidential pardon to two Florida shark divers who, in 2020, were convicted of theft after releasing 19 sharks from a fisherman's longline catch and later destroying the line. Captain John R. Moore was an underwater photographer, freediver, and former commercial fisherman, while Tanner Mansell described himself as a professional shark diver and cinematographer. They had been found guilty by a Southern District Court jury in West Palm Beach two years ago. (Undercurrent October 2022)

A Dive Travel Specialist Wrote to Us. The owner of a scuba travel business complained to us that Undercurrent's reporting on Red Sea vessel disasters is irresponsible and that we should "support the diving industry, not dry it up." She fails to understand that Undercurrent does not exist to support the dive industry -- we are a counterbalance. We exist to support divers. Business Week once called us The Consumer Reports for Divers. We protect sport divers, not the industry. We have no interest in keeping businesses operating in an atmosphere of no regulation, where boats go to sea with divers aboard without sufficient guarantees of safety. Rather than writing to us, she should be raising hell with boat operators and pushing for proper regulation....

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