Is It Safe To Swim In Australian Waters ?
Yes, it’s safe to swim in Australian waters. Whenever you hear of Australian lifestyles, they will be centred on the beach and Australians and tourists have no problems swimming in our waters. There are sharks at beaches throughout the world and Australia has no more than in any other place. We have a very small number of shark attacks each year (maybe 3 or 4 in a bad year) and they’re invariably on surfers swimming well away from the beach – that’s not many for a place where millions of people swim and surf, many of them all year around. Irikanji and box jellyfish are dangerous, but are found only in inshore tropical waters in summer. It’s not safe to swim in those places at that time, but out on the Great Barrier Reef is safe and so is anywhere during winter (it’s still hot then) and even in summer, each town in affected areas has netted beaches where it is safe to swim. In Australia, if you swim between the flags on patrolled beaches, you are far safer than simply living in your hom
