Naveen Kumar
Port Blair, Apr 15: Once again a crocodile was sighted near North Bay Island on Thursday forcing the authorities to close down the beach for all kind of waters sports, including diving.
It has been learnt that on Thursday and Friday no tourist boats were allowed to leave for North Bay Islands, leaving tourists very upset and fuming.
This is not the first time when crocodile has been sighted in the coastal waters of North Bay Island.
However another sighting of crocodile will simply mean that many visiting tourists will not be able to visit North Bay during their present trip.
Tour Operators are worst hit as they have to make all the guests understand about this problem and convince them to drop the plan to visit in North Bay.
Talking to Andaman Sheekha the Vice President of Bay of Bengal Tour Operators Association, Mr Anand said that they have requested the administration to shift all the crocodiles to an area, which is away from tourist spots or to put crocodile fencing around tourists spots to avoid human crocodile conflicts but nothing has been done so far, as a result every other month they have to close North Bay for which Tour Operators suffer huge inconvenience.
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