An American tourist has died in a jet ski accident within three hours of arriving in the Bahamas.
Anthony Moretti, 44, of Staten Island, New York, died on Tuesday after colliding with another jet ski operated by his 13-year-old niece.
According to police, Mr. Moretti arrived in Nassau at 2:30pm on Tuesday and was pronounced dead less than three hours later.
He was staying at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island,
Kerzner International yesterday expressed sympathy to the family of Mr. Moretti and said they were helping police with their investigations into the accident.
Last month Bahamas Hotel Association president Jeremy MacVean called for tough new licensing regulations and mandatory insurance requirements for water spirt vessels. He was responding to the news that a British family has called on UK police to come to the Bahamas to investigate the death of their son, two-year-old Paul Gallagher. Paul was struck and killed by a speedboat in 2002, on the same beach where Tuesday’s accident occurred.
The death of Mr. Moretti is the latest of several water sports deaths on Paradise Island in recent years.
In 2000, a 12-year-old boy drowned in the Atlantis lagoon after he was sucked into an intake pipe while snorkelling.
Last year a North Carolina woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Sheraton Grand Hotel, also on Paradise Island, in relation to the 1999 death of her daughter Tosha Walker, 27, who was killed by a 70ft fall in a parasailing accident.
Source: Paco Nunez, The Tribune
