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...back alive. The whole point is to push the envelope and live to tell the tale. It's unclear what Markus Groh thought when he signed up for a late February dive that could put him face-to-face with killer sharks spanning 18 feet in length - without a cage to separate him from the man-eaters. He surely didn't expect to end up dead. But the 49-year-old attorney from Austria, died on Feb. 24 after being bitten in the leg while swimming with the sharks in the Bahamas...
Diving with dangerous sharks without a cage appeals to the thrill seeker, Burgess says, adding, "It is taking further and further steps farther and farther toward danger." The tour, provided by Scuba Adventures of Riviera Beach, Fla., promoted its dives as great hammerhead and tiger shark expeditions. Although the company issued a blanket "no comment" when contacted by TIME, its literature made clear the divers would be in the water without any cages while the sharks were being fed - a practice banned in Florida...
...press and attract more students—even those without any artistic experience—to try something new.“The main motivation is to let more people know about it,” Jacoby says.UNLOCKING THE CAGELike the Bow and Arrow Press, the Quincy Cage has come to occupy a special place on campus among students looking for an offbeat place to perform. The Cage has primarily hosted rock bands and pop groups since it opened in the spring of 2002. In its brief history, the Cage has staged performances by a wide range of groups, including...
...eyes glanced down the long table of relatives, halting on my 13-year-old cousin and my 80-year-old grandmother, whose birthdays we were somehow gathered one floor above a stripper cage to celebrate. Surely, there had been some mix-up. We were at the wrong restaurant. Something...
...back of a church. Not long afterwards he moved Miriam, her mother and father, and what possessions they could pack in a small truck back to northern Iraq. He rented them all a house in Ankawa, and married her last spring. "It was like living in a cage in Baghdad," said Miriam. "Now I have a husband, a home, and safety...