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South Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board

March 6, 2005

ISSUE: Diver dies from shark bite.

The biggest surprise in last month's shark bite that killed an Austrian lawyer is that it was a first.

Indeed, when Markus Groh, 49, bled to death from a shark bite to his left leg in the waters off the Bahamas Feb. 24, it was registered as the first fatality involving shark feeding expeditions — though it's important to point out that more than two dozen divers have been injured during such risky adventures, according to shark experts.

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