RockyDude said..
JB,

Chill out a tad.

Getting cranky resolves nothing.

"I think Cage diving has a small place in helping educate the general public, and they are also responsible for a lot of the research and tagging of great whites, so i can see the positive also."

"I would like to see some more serious research into the effects"

"I DONT LIKE ANYTHING THAT TEACHES A WILD ANIMAL TO COME IN FOR AN EASY FEED"

What's difficult to interpret there?

You acknowledge there is possibly a link with CD and attacks, and that more research needs doing into the possible link.

But the idea of continuing the "research", (easily done without tourists teasing sharks), is quite OK to go on without disrupting CD businesses.

My thoughts are that the sharks probably don't care too much whether there's a person in the cage, so long as they get an easy meal, so why prolong the training while there is potentially more sharks learning that people = food.

You happily speak out vehemently about some things, but strangely silent on this one.


Your argument could be put like this:

1. Jumping into a cage surrounded by wild lions enables people to learn that lions will try to kill you = positive.

2. More lions seem to be eating people, so we must look into that some day. But keep doing what we are doing.

3. People attracting lions with the prospect of a easy meal is bad. Nothing to see here....


I can't help but shake my head, and even more when you suggest that CD should be separated from other shark attack thoughts.

No offence intended BJ, anything that will help should be available on the table for discussion.


PS, if I was trolling, I would have only posted a clown smiley.