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From my reading, Great White sharks don't really differentiate between seals and people, it's all prey to them. They don't think "Oh that's a human being, not a seal, I've made a mistake." See the chapter on sharks in The Book of Deadly Animals by Gordon Grice.

Not really my point. Bring more prey to an area get more predators. No hunting and the numbers go up of each. The opportunities for interactions goes up. Watch the newspapers for grizzlies interacting with humans. More people, less natural prey, more humans in the area. This ain’t rocket science.

From my reading, Great White sharks don't really differentiate between seals and people, it's all prey to them. They don't think "Oh that's a human being, not a seal, I've made a mistake."

I put a similar thought into an article that was published in many Mass. newspapers; here is an excerpt. (I preceded it with an account of 2 women in kayaks off Plymouth Mass in 2014 having a white chomp down on one of the kayaks and then swim off.

"Like that kayak, we might not be on a white shark’s menu, but how does a shark determine a seal sized person isn’t as good a meal, or maybe a better meal than a seal?
A sample bite taken with large triangular serrated teeth can be a devastating problem for us, even if we are afterwards rejected as not being a suitable meal for the shark"