00:00Stirring the waters in Port Phillip Bay, high speeds endangering families relaxing beachside.
00:10People are out there swimming with their families and a jet ski goes straight past at 20 knots. It's extremely dangerous.
00:17Police responding to more than 100 incidents in the first week of this year, mostly involving dangerous use of jet skis.
00:26Last weekend, three people were hospitalised in two separate jet ski incidents at Safety Beach.
00:32In Rye, three teenage boys had their jet ski towed back to shore after nose diving into a wave.
00:39Police now ramping up patrols ahead of a warm weekend.
00:44We'll be at the boat ramps with the public order response team.
00:47We'll be checking your safety gear, your licence, we'll be making sure your vessels are registered.
00:52As of December last year, nearly 28,500 jet skis were registered in Victoria, jumping by 4,000 since 2020.
01:02Community groups around Port Phillip Bay have banded together to campaign to ban jet skis within one kilometre of the shoreline.
01:11There's more non-jet ski owners than what there are jet ski owners.
01:15But we seem to be, as a group, we seem to be the ones that are ignored continuously.
01:19Police issued about 300 infringements for jet ski offences last year.
01:24But the boating industry says it's only a minority doing the wrong thing.
01:29I think the current regulations are really good and it's just a matter of those being enforced correctly
01:34and for the minority that do the wrong thing being weeded out and being dealt with.
01:38A call for thrill seekers to cool their jets.
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