David and Elana Barnes provoked outraged cries of 'irresponsible parenting' after they posted a video of their 5-year-old daughter swimming with sharks onto YouTube.

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', they argued on ABC's Good Morning America today.
The Youtube video became an internet sensation with some users slamming the Connecticut parents' decision as 'dangerous' and 'reckless' while others praised the couple's adventurous nature

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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.’