Diving in Australia is extremely popular, because it is there that you can visit many interesting underwater places, including the Great Barrier Reef, and see sea creatures in their natural habitat. However, despite the variety of diving tours and the high quality of their organization, such an exciting adventure can be dangerous to health and even life.
The Great Barrier Reef remains the most popular place for diving. This is a unique, striking in its beauty coral formation, where you can observe the amazing creatures of the underwater world. Tourists are offered various diving programs, including both single dives and multi-day tours, which allows customers to choose the most suitable option.
However, we must not forget that not all inhabitants of the Great Barrier Reef are safe. Some of them have poisonous needles that can harm humans. Poisonous stone fish and jellyfish are not yet the most unpleasant of the inhabitants of this place, so the diver should be very careful when diving. There are especially many poisonous jellyfish off the coast.
Some other places in Australia are much more dangerous, where diving is also organized. These are South and North Neptune Island, Sibsey, Little English and Dangerous Reef. This is where tourists go to see sharks in their natural habitat. Divers are submerged in cages to prevent predators from reaching them. To conduct such tours, special equipment is required, because the life of a diving person depends on it. If something goes wrong, the chances are high that the diver will die.
The situation is complicated by the fact that, according to scientists, due to diving in cages, sharks have become much more likely to attack tourists. Since humans live on land, marine predators often do not consider them to be their prey. However, too frequent diving of people under water and their encounters with sharks changed the situation in many ways, and sharks became much more aggressive and dangerous. This even became the reason that after the death of several tourists, the Australian government decided to ban diving in cages.
