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His favourites are Biševo and Vis because of its caves:
- The Green Cave on the island of Vis is a magical place
because if one dives into it at the right time of day,
around noon, the opening on the ceiling lets inside just
enough sunrays to make the cave surreally green. On
the island of Vis there are plenty of beautiful submarine
“walls”, cliffs covered with gorgonians, even one
sunk airplane which is at a bigger depth and therefore
too deep for recreational diving. On the other hand,
one needs to wonder about the state of the submarine
world in our national parks and ask itself whether it
is protected enough – says Žižak, confirming the wellknown
fact that, despite of protection regulations, in
practice it is hard to put an end to all of those abusing
the natural resources of the Croatian submarine
world.
However, he most frequently dives in his “own” maritime
zone around Trogir and Split, and when speaking about
these waters the place where he found the best diving
locations is the southern part of the island of Šolta that
is, as he claims, still rather wild and unexplored. The best
time for diving is noon because of good visibility, but
night dives can be especially exciting because of different
night habits of the submarine fauna – some predators
are more active, some fish “sleep” and are so calm
that one can get real close to them.
Tame Octopus
Believe it or not, even sea animals can be tamed, so
most of diving instructors have their secret spots where
they take their groups to “befriend” with a particular
octopus or a lobster, for example. But, more and
more fish-poachers tracking organised diving groups
“visiting” the sea fauna, find animals that have no fear
of people and without any scrupuls shoot them with a
spear-fishing gun. – In this way we befriended with a
mum octopus that was sitting on her eggs and everything
was just fine until one day a fish-poacher saw us.
The next time we came to that spot we just saw a diver
with a gun pulling the octopus on the boat. Of course,
we never saw the octopus again – says the owner
of the “Resnik” diving centre that, because of events
like these, rarely speaks about the locations where one
may find tamed animals. He even claims that you can
tell by the look a fish has whether she is scared or willing
for some human company. The regulations of underwater
fishing strictly inhibit underwater fishing with “scuba”
gear, meaning diving tanks. On the other hand divers
are mostly endangered by irresponsible behaviour of
yachtsmen that ignore buoys and flags that obligatorily
mark the dive spot. Some sea speed lovers, unfamiliar
with sea behaviour regulations, are even drawn to the
marked dive spot so they start approaching it, which is
extremely dangerous for divers.
In the end, anybody willing to participate in diving should
be relatively healthy: asthmatics and people suffering
from heart diseases shouldn’t expose themselves
to this attractive but demanding sport, and the same
goes for those that like to “have some night fun” – hangover,
dehydration and diving at bigger depths are a
very risky combination. Everybody else can without any
fear, but with expert help, dive into the big blue: love at
first sight is inevitable.
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