Posted on 04/29/2018 5:48:57 AM PDT by C19fan
Edited on 04/29/2018 12:26:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
It may sound like a suicide mission, but the latest attraction for adrenaline junkies is… swimming with crocodiles. Tourists pay more than £5,000 to dive into a river in Botswana to swim alongside 12ft-long Nile crocodiles. The creatures, which weigh up to half a ton and can kill a man with one snap of their massive jaws, are responsible for killing hundreds people every year. The experience is organised by tour operator Big Animals, which assures thrill-seekers that the cold waters of the Okavango Delta, where the trips take place, make the crocodiles ‘lethargic and slow’.
This is what happens when rich millenials get bored of tide pods.
I have taken mokoro trips up the delta in Botswana. Knowing a croc can literally grab you off a dugout canoe is a little humbling. Also an eleventy billion pound hippo charging 2 feet past your tent at 2 in the morning with all the subtlety of a freaking freight train going down pikes peak with broken brakes is also a wee bit unsettling
Democrats?
Next up on extreme tours; slathering tourist in barbecue sauce and dropping them into the Amazon to swim with the piranhas.
Hold muh beer!
This is dumb to the nth degree.
A winter adventure, sleeping with Grizzlies, coming soon to the North West.
It’s on my bucket list to circumsise a cape buffalo.
First get a mohel to train you...
My first thought was they must be out of Tide Pods.
Another just because you can, doesn’t mean you should event.
They could do this for free in FL.
HAHA! I have been chased by a few but really had no interest in your suggestion. :)
Pay big money to see how close you can get to death. What’s exciting to some people is madness to others..
Reminds me of kayaking on rivers in FLA
I would hear volkswagons eneterkng the water nearby in the middle of the night
One thing about gators
They tend to go for smaller prey
Not adults
I’m sure they’re banking on that
These million year old reptiles have learned over the millennia
Jeremy Wade Of Animal Planet’s River Monsters dived in those waters in the winter... only because the water gets cold enough that Nile crocodiles go into a state of hibernation when they aren’t active.
Personally you couldn’t pay me enough money to dive in crocodile-infested waters. Simply too dangerous to risk one’s life on such an endeavor.
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