… People in the Bahamas turned to the use of jet skis to help rescue others who were stranded in high waters after the devastation wrought on the island nation by Hurricane Dorian.
Speaking to CNN, Michael Pintard, the Bahamas’ Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources, said he, his wife, and his young daughter were trapped in their home in Freeport on Grand Bahama island by rising floodwaters, but were rescued by a group of jet skiers led by Jensen Burrows and d’Sean Smith … More
Occurred on July 20, 2019 / Sulphur, Louisiana, USA
“I swapped a small engine into a standup jetski for my 3 and 4-year-old boys to ride by themselves. It has an adjustable speed limiter to limit top speed. The riding was done legally in a privately owned pond, not public waters.”
A time bomb is ticking for a huge swath of the boating public — the generation that ranges 35 and younger — that will be required, starting Jan. 1, to have a California Boaters Card before operating a boat.
Over the weekend at Shasta Lake, California’s No. 1 recreation lake, sheriffs on boat patrols were handing out a safety booklet with the test in the back, provided free from the Division of Boating and Waterways.
“Families are … More