A travel warning has been issued for the Bahamas as a consequence of an increase of sexual assaults on jet skis.
The US Department of State issued a travel warning to the Bahamas on May 31. It is a stage two advisory, which urges vacation goers to “exercise increased caution due to crime.”
It mentions a number of alerts, together with jet ski and boating assaults, seaside security and shark assaults. Two American vacationers have been bitten by a shark earlier this yr, which resulted in them needing to be airlifted to the hospital.
The advisory says violent crime, like armed robberies, burglaries, and sexual assaults, can happen anyplace in The Bahamas. The almost certainly place to expertise crime is in Nassau or Freeport on New Providence and Grand Bahama islands.
While boating and jet snowboarding is a common pastime for vacationers, the industry will not be nicely regulated, the alert says. Sexual assaults by jet ski operators have been reported.
Newsweek reported there have been circumstances of operators transporting their victims to distant islands, the place they assault them.
Jet ski accidents can even happen. Four US guests have been hospitalized since August in accidents, with two circumstances needing emergency evacuation to the US.
The advisory added that US authorities workers are prohibited from utilizing jet skis and personal watercraft rented from impartial operators on New Providence and Paradise islands.
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It mentioned some watercrafts will not be secure, and a few operators aren’t licensed or insured. Operators generally ignore climate forecasts. Always observe native climate and marine alerts.
When it involves swimming within the ocean, it advises to by no means swim alone and beware of jet skis or different watercraft working close to shore.
Along with jet skis, sexual assaults have occurred on and close to downtown Nassau seashores.
