CAYMAN ISLANDS (8 Oct 2006) -- Remember when Stingray City in the Cayman Islands was the world's most overpopulated, eco-unfriendly and boring dive site? Well now you can add the "world's most dangerous dive site" thanks to TV entertainer Steve Irwin's grand finale. Crocodile wrestler Irwin died on September 4 fooling around with a stingray while scuba diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Since then, tourist bookings have declined by 60 to 100 percent at the controversial Cayman Islands "interactive" feeding site where one young American teenage tourist nearly lost his arm in May 2005. That despite reassurances from the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism that Stingray City has a "clean safety record". In fact, there have been several serious accidents at Stingray City involving participants in so-called "interactive" diving and snorkeling activities, a lucrative business scheme promoted by California-based dive industry kingpins PADI, DEMA, Project Aware and the Coral Reef Alliance. | 
