Photos of tourist divers touching a fearsome great white shark have taken the Internet by storm this week, inspiring shares, likes, and questions over how to interact with wild animals.

Moscow-based diver Dmitry Vasyanovich, 47, posted the pictures to Facebook, saying he took them on a recent dive to Guadalupe Island, off the Baja peninsula. It's a popular spot for the controversial practice of cage diving. In the photos, the divers can be seen luring sharks close by dangling chunks of bait, a practice that some conservationists have criticized as interfering with the natural behavior of wild animals.

On its website, dive tour arranger Guadalupe Great White Sharks says: “Mexican park regulations require that you stay within the cages at all times including