The Great Barrier Reef

There have been 1600 known shipwrecks at “The Great Barrier Reef”!

The ships are damage to the corals on the reef, and the oil from the ship can be hard to get rid of.  But it is safer for the ships to sail over the reef than outside in the open sea. That is because if there is something wrong with the ship it is easier to fix it if the ships are on the reef.

And there are a lot of tourists from all over the world who visits the reef. They liter a lot, and that could be dangerous for the corals and the wild life in the sea.

I don’t know if they are doing anything to stop this, but the ships could choose another route, and they could put up trash cans.