{"id":246235,"date":"2004-12-08T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/12\/legislation-needed-to-enforce-safety-in-watersports"},"modified":"2004-12-08T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T16:35:10","slug":"legislation-needed-to-enforce-safety-in-watersports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/12\/legislation-needed-to-enforce-safety-in-watersports","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Needed To Enforce Safety In Watersports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no regulations in place to ensure that jet-ski operators in the Bahamas must know how to swim, The Tribune has learned.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nNor are operators officially required to wear life vests, Jet-Ski Association president Zeke Minnis said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Minnis said however, that all jet-ski operators know that they are &#8216;supposed&#8217; to wear life vests, and are well aware that it would be suicide not to know how to swim in their line of work.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe Tribune questioned Mr. Minnis about water sports regulations yesterday after media reports on Monday suggested that drowned jet-ski operator Valentino Thompson, who disappeeared on Friday and whose body was found on Paradise Island on Sunday, could not swim.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Minnis told The Tribune that while all operators know they should wear life vests at all times, there is no legislation in place stating that such precautions are mandatory.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Paco Nunez, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>all jet-ski operators know that they are &#8216;supposed&#8217; to wear life vests, and are well aware that it would be suicide not to know how to swim in their line of work.<\/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-246235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246235","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=246235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}