Ok so in our office we have a rather spectacular salt water aquarium and out of the 25 workers in said office I usually give the fellas a feed every day. As a result they clearly recognise me when I walk in as evidenced by them all swimming to the glass. Even more so if I have the jar of fish food in my hand they're practically leaping out of the water. So the question is, if a humble clown fish can be trained to associate me with food then what is cage diving teaching our sharks? Boat plus people in the water = food. Combine that with the chum line down our coast from all the cray pots during the season and it's not too hard to draw some conclusions. Is my logic flawed or should we be taking a serious look at how the people making money off the ocean have some responsibility in the ever increasing human/shark interactions?

By extension of the training logic there is some good un-training going on around the world to prevent human/animal encounters. For instance when Polar bears hang around camp too long they catch them and terrorize the hell out of them in captivity for month before relocation them, the association for them is humans = bad. If sharks had bad experiences (other than death) when around humans rather than getting a free feed we'd surely be going a long way to reversing the current trend?