A tourist has been killed on calangute beach
http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Water-sports-or-killer-activity/43936.html
IMO extreme caution needs to be taken on the beaches of goa an issue first time visitors may not be aware of. There are dangerous rip-tides in some locations and the level of saftey of water sports may not be as high as one might expect.
The introduction of Life Guards in recent years is a move in the right direction but they appear to be more prepared to warn locals who stray outside the safe area than overseas visitors.
I have to say my OH & I stood aghast on Calagute steps as we watched people swimming in the sea alongside boats coming and going as well as jet skis.
I find it astonishing that they don't have segregated areas for swimmers and water sports, it's a wonder there aren't more accidents.
With this one (according to the Indiatimes), it was a medical student from Delhi. The boat he was in hit a stationary boat and he was thrown into the water and died later of head injuries.
The introduction of Life Guards in recent years is a move in the right direction but they appear to be more prepared to warn locals who stray outside the safe area than overseas visitors.
I think this is more a case of the locals paying more attention than the overseas visitors. I saw the lifeguard being totally ignored despite repeated attempts to whistle in some foreign swimmers so he just wandered on to the next lot of swimmers.
I'm sure many of us have been alarmed by the antics of speedboats and especially jet-skis as they zoom around, just yards away from swimmers and bathers. I know in Baga there are segregated areas but nobody seems to take too much notice of them.
Last year there was a person who went swimming every day about a quarter of a mile out to sea. He/she was obviously a very strong swimmer but I'm not sure if some of the speeding/swerving jet skiers would have seen him/her until it was too late. Frightening.
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