And you are right Rob, nobody seems to be paying any attention to that boat in the picture. To be honest, those boats look like a lot of fun, but boats and swimmers should never be in the same general area. That just spells disaster.
And you are right Rob, nobody seems to be paying any attention to that boat in the picture. To be honest, those boats look like a lot of fun, but boats and swimmers should never be in the same general area. That just spells disaster.
Brownsd54,Originally Posted by brownsd54
I completely agree. I personally think all the boats are too close. But that is not the law. The "plan" was apparently just that, a plan, not the law. As you wrote, "There were white buoys for the swim zone and red buoys for the non-motorized zone." Other than by Rutland Point (Point Village), no one has ever seen the red bouy or any non-motorized markers on the main beach. As well the plan's regulations for jetskis have been far surpassed by the new law.
As the plan was worded, it is obvious that it has never been implemented as originally planned.
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The buoys were out and in fact the stainless steel anchors for the buoys are still in place, but the buoys are long gone. Not sure if government officials just wanted to mark the area between Point Village and Booby Cay because of the high boat traffic that's being bottle necked in that area or they just started at Rutland Point and then ran out of money. Rob, any chance you could post a link to the "new jet ski law".
Brownsd54,
Seeing as Point Village would have the responsibility for the swimming bouys, we know where they came from. As for the red bouys, since they disappeared after being washed away and no other such bouys were marking any other place, it would not be logical to assume that the government ran out of money. The plan you mentioned never referred to "red" bouys, just floating markers. This would suggest some other reason for the red markers you saw.
Back in 2014 we had lengthy discussions about this topic. This below thread references a few news articles as well as the intial regulations on jetskis first presented because of the Jamaican child being killed on the beach in Ochi by a tourist:
https://negril.com/forum/showthread....ki+regulations
The government initial response that had limited success created a call for new measures after the tourist incident in Negril:
http://www.mot.gov.jm/speeches/measu...pwc-operations
In 2016 the discussion continued with more information about the regulations and reality:
https://negril.com/forum/showthread....ons#post180216
Both these threads occurred during the timeframe of the plan you have mentioned.
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Wow!! Here is one for you Rob. Just going back through my pictures of Negril and I found this one from 2007. It clearly shows the white swim lines dotting along most property lines, then the larger white (swim Zone) buoys and red Non-motorized) buoys all the way down the beach. This picture was taken from the deck at White Sands and probably on a pina colada Sunday which might explain the blurred picture (looked focused to me through the camera). Obviously the buoy's didn't last long because neither one of us remember them all the way down the beach.
Wow is right! That is going back a little bit in time!
I don't remember those bouys and have no idea what they were marking back then. There appears to be at least two motorized watercraft and possibly 4 or more within the red bouys. I have video from back then, maybe it will shed some light on this. I will also check with the members of the Chamber who were position holders back then to see what they can recollect. While at first glance it looks like what was mentioned in the plan, the picture was taken about 5 years before the plan was conceived.
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