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jet ski

A motorised personal watercraft in which one or two people ride on the water in much the same way as one rides a motorcycle. Jet skis are widely regarded as the most dangerous of all water craft due to a combination of factors:
(1) Top speeds of nearly 160 kph/100 mph and relative lack of protection should a rider fall off the vehicle at high speeds, resulting in injuries:
• Head, chest, abdominal, soft tissue, and spinal cord trauma with paralysis.
• Lacerations, broken bones, burns, disfigurement.
• Hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, drowning, death.
(2) High-pressure water jet propulsion; a rider not wearing a thick layer of protective neoprene who falls into the jet’s path risks injuries to the anal sphincter and/or vagina with permanent soft tissue damage or death.

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PWC Gwynedd, a group that promotes the safe use of watercraft, said that whoever was driving the jet-ski captured in the footage "does not represent the whole jet-ski community".

Kayakers are harassed by lout on jet-ski

We seized their jet-skis and issued fines against violators."

Drones catch jet ski riders who threaten swimmers in Dubai

The owners of the jet-skis, who had been forced to walk back to the mainland, were then reunited with their crafts.

Jet-ski owners high and dry; craft stranded on holy island causeway as tide goes out

People that are using their jet-skis on Gwynedd beaches must have some sort of licence and if they behave improperly their licence should be revoked as they leave the beach .

Time for action to curb jet-ski riders; LETTERS

The campaign resulted in inspecting numerous violations, banning vehicles involved in reckless vehicular acts, as well as renting and driving jet-skis without the possession of licenses, he added.

Following precautionary sea measures are mandatory -- official

[beaucoup moins que]Il s'agit de mesures fixant la zone limite autorisee pour les conducteurs de jet-ski qui est de 300 metres, des zones de baignade et le renforcement des patrouilles sur les cotes pour surveiller les jet-skis et eviter d'eventuels accidents[beaucoup plus grand que], assure notre interlocuteur.

Les garde-cotes mobilises

The dad of 16-year-old Hannah Sutton says the pain of her tragic jet-ski death is as raw as ever.

Jet-ski death is still 'raw'

A father whose daughter was killed in a holiday jet-ski accident yesterday branded the pounds 523 court fine for the waterbike's owner "pathetic".

Death fine anger; INTERNATIONAL CYPRUS

Both Cypriot men, who are on bail, have been charged with allowing the youngsters to ride the jet-skis without a licence.

WALES: Jet-ski death trial delayed

Christakis Ioannou, 46, and Aristos Ioannou, 30, will appear in a Limassol court charged with allowing the youngsters to ride the jet-skis under the minimum age of 18.

Jet-skier tragedy: 2 on trial

They allow Gardai to bring charges for the "irresponsible or reckless" use of jet-skis and powerboats and careless and dangerous driving.

Jet ski louts to face new crackdown

I was told by the Harbour Authority that jet-skis and wetbikes were not allowed in the Bay.