The tourist market of Townsville has increased much thanks to the fishermen and the divers coming to watch sharks.
The representative of AUF, Doctor Adam Smith told that diving for sharks watching had become popular in the other parts of the country too.
"Tourists are ready to pay their money for watching the grey shark-nurse in South Wales, the grey reef shark in Queensland and the big white shark in South Australia", he said.
Doctor Smith noticed that in the other districts, where the industrial catching of sharks wasn't carried out, so far there was a big amount of this species of fish. A diver counted 443 sharks in the Coral Sea during 8 days.
The analyst of sharks from Townswille, Richard Fitzpatrick, said that during a short period of time it is possible to observe from 20 to 30 sharks in the Coral Sea. The ichthyologist from the Australian Institute of Sea Research, Mike Cappo, told that the big population of sharks was a very encouraging fact. Earlier, scientists' prognoses about the destiny of sharks had been very pessimistic.
Probably, the interest of extreme-lovers to these animals would help to preserve them from extinction and will help to obtain the necessary funds for the research of these species. Maybe even such weird fraction of extreme lovers, as nudists that conquer all parts of the world, doing all the same as a normal extreme seeking tourist would do, but naked, would have interest for diving with sharks. Just imagine - you totally naked, with the oxygen cylinder at your shoulders, nothing more - and sharks around you. That would boost lots of adrenaline into your blood.
