Although his attack was caught on videotape and solicited by major daytime talk shows, Beach refused to release it. He has become a critic of shark feeding and believes that too much focus on shark attacks hurts conservation efforts. A master scuba diver and trainer, Beach advocates for sharks through several forums including his Miami Beach dive business, www.rjdiving.com, his Miami reef conservation group, www.reefguard.org, and also as a professor at the Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. Mike still enjoys diving with sharks in their natural habitats—without feeding them—and does so with his good friend and fellow shark bite survivor Kent Bonde. Together, they are working with the Pew Environment Group to conserve sharks.