An American man died within the Bahamas after his jet ski crashed into a ship at sea, police stated.
On Sunday morning at roughly 11:30 a.m., officers from the Marine Help Service Department “responded to a collision involving a vessel and a jet ski in waters off Paradise Island,” in accordance with an announcement from the Royal Bahamas Police Pressure on Sunday.
“The male rider of the jet ski was discovered unresponsive with seen accidents,” police continued. “Medical personnel visited the scene, examined the sufferer however discovered no very important indicators of life.”
Authorities haven’t publicly recognized the person concerned within the crash.
Since August 2024, not less than 4 U.S. residents have been hospitalized with accidents from jet ski accidents within the Bahamas, together with two individuals who wanted emergency evacuations to the US on account of their accidents.
In April 2025, the U.S. Embassy within the Bahamas issued a security alert and started advising U.S. residents of the dangers of renting jet skis within the Bahamas, saying that it needs to be averted altogether by U.S. residents.
U.S. authorities staff working within the Bahamas are additionally prohibited from renting and utilizing jet skis on New Windfall and Paradise islands.
The investigation into the dying of the U.S. citizen on Sunday is at the moment ongoing, police stated.
