Turning disaster into opportunity
by Admin on Feb.04, 2009, under News
South Africa’s newest dive attractions - two artificial reefs - have been established near Cape Vidal in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. This places South Africa’s first World Heritage Site in the company of Australia’s Woongarra Marine National Park which boasts the Cochrane Artificial Reef.
Says Andrew Zaloumis Park CEO, “The iSimangaliso Authority seized the opportunity to turn what was a disaster into a tourism and marine research possibility for South Africa’s first World Heritage Site.The two rugby-field-size dumb barges, named DAR1 and DAR2, scuttled late last year just south of Cape Vidal are already attracting plentiful marine life in their new role as artificial reefs.”
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