David and Elana Barnes have had to defend allowing their five-year-old daughter, Anaia, swim with sharks while on holiday in the Bahamas
However, they still would have let Anaia, 5, swim with sharks during their vacation in the Bahamas because ‘life is too short to be boring’
The footage shows that Anaia is swimming with
instructors and a group of adults.
In the Youtube post, Elana wrote: ‘We swam with Reef, Lemon, and Nurse sharks, all very low on the aggression index, yet still very thrilling! Put it on your bucket list!’
Nurse sharks and lemon sharks are generally gentle and not aggressive towards humans whereas reef sharks are considered to be more of a threat to human.
The mother also wrote on the Youtube post that there had been no attacks in the 20 years the company had been running the shark-swimming experience.
Anaia’s father argued on GMA, ‘There’s just always risk assessments in life every day. I’m more concerned that they don’t put seatbelts in school buses.’
The video begins with footage of a worker feeding the sharks with chunks of fish. Alana tells her daughter: ‘The sharks are hungry. You have got to wait till they are full.’
At the end of the adventure, a fellow swimmer jokes to the girl: ‘Nothing had us for lunch.’
