I’ve heard of cage diving with sharks, but never cage diving with crocs. This was one for my bucket list! These weren’t just any crocs, they were salt water crocs – the largest species of crocs in the world.
Cage diving with crocs is offered at Crocosaurus Cove in Darwin. It’s the only one of its kind in Australia and one of only a few places in the world where you can go cage diving with crocs. The acrylic cylinder in which you are lowered is aptly named the Cage of Death. For surely that would be your fate without it.

View from inside the “Cage of Death”

Thankfully Bess was more interested in her beauty sleep than she was in attacking me.
A crane lowers you into three different croc enclosures, where you spend approximately 5 minutes each. The first enclosure was Houdini and Bess’. The croc handlers warned me that Houdini was the jealous type and may attack me through the cage – a rather daunting prospect, which I filmed with my Canon PowerShot D20:
I guess I must not have seen like a threat to him as he didn’t even move. I couldn’t decide whether that was a good thing or not. Bess (pictured above, under water, Houdini is featured in the video) stirred a little bit to let me know I was disturbing her beauty sleep, but didn’t protest too much.


My cage diving with crocs experience was relatively mellow, but every dive is different. Had the crocs been feisty like they can be on some dives, I might have peed in my swimsuit. Regardless, I felt privileged to be so close to saltwater crocs, knowing that I wouldn’t be their dinner – although I did get to feed them, but that’s another story!
Know Before You Enter the Cage of Death at Crocosaurus Cove:
- The Cage of Death holds between 1-2 people.
- The entire experience is ~15 minutes long, ~5 minutes in each enclosure.
- I’m 5’8″ (175cm) and the water came up to my neck, if you were shorter you would need to tread water.
- Advance reservations are required.
- Visit Crocosaurus Cove for more information.
Thank you to Crocosaurus Coveand for Tourism Northern Territory for hosting me and proving me with such a unique, fun experience. As always, all opinions expressed are my own.
I flew from Frankfurt to Singapore with Qantas airlines, who kindly upgraded me to Premium Economy, which was wonderful, thank you! From Signapore to Darwin I flew with JetBlue.