{"id":246159,"date":"2004-11-25T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/tourist-dies-in-jet-ski-tragedy-in-the-bahamas"},"modified":"2004-11-25T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T16:53:07","slug":"tourist-dies-in-jet-ski-tragedy-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/11\/tourist-dies-in-jet-ski-tragedy-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Dies In Jet Ski Tragedy In The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American tourist has died in a jet ski accident within three hours of arriving in the Bahamas.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAnthony Moretti, 44, of Staten Island, New York, died on Tuesday after colliding with another jet ski operated by his 13-year-old niece.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to police, Mr. Moretti arrived in Nassau at 2:30pm on Tuesday and was pronounced dead less than three hours later.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe was staying at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island,<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nKerzner International yesterday expressed sympathy to the family of Mr. Moretti and said they were helping police with their investigations into the accident.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nLast 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&#8217;s accident occurred.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe death of Mr. Moretti is the latest of several water sports deaths on Paradise Island in recent years.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn 2000, a 12-year-old boy drowned in the Atlantis lagoon after he was sucked into an intake pipe while snorkelling.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nLast 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.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Paco Nunez, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Mr. Moretti is the latest of several water sports deaths on Paradise Island in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}