{"id":119699,"date":"2025-09-04T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119699\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:11:10","slug":"jet-skier-who-disturbed-dolphins-given-police-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119699\/","title":{"rendered":"Jet skier who disturbed dolphins given police warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

Intentionally and recklessly disturbing dolphins, porpoises, whales and basking sharks is illegal, police say<\/p>\n

A man who used his jet ski to disturb a pod of dolphins off the Cornwall coast has been given a police warning.<\/p>\n

The dolphins had been swimming in St Austell Bay when the incident took place in June.<\/p>\n

Devon and Cornwall Police said the man was seen to deliberately approach the dolphins and encouraged others to do the same.<\/p>\n

Sgt Martin Easter said the man, from Cornwall, “had no regard for the dolphins or how his deliberate behaviour could cause a disturbance, even hailing for more people to come over and join him in doing so”.<\/p>\n

The man has been given a community protection warning, which sets out a number of conditions he must follow.<\/p>\n

These include not following or pursuing any marine wildlife in any watercraft.<\/p>\n

Sgt Easter said Cornwall was “lucky to have a vast amount of wildlife across the bays”, and, while sightings of these animals were exciting, “it’s important we respect their space”.<\/p>\n

“Our ask is that people enjoy our waters, but to make sure they do so safely and responsibly,” he added.<\/p>\n

People should try to stay at least 100m (330 ft) away from marine mammals while in the ocean, the force said.<\/p>\n

It added if this was not possible, they should leave as much space as they could.<\/p>\n

Intentionally and recklessly disturbing dolphins, porpoises, whales and basking sharks is illegal under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.<\/p>\n

A breach of the police warning could result in further prosecution under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PA Media Intentionally and recklessly disturbing dolphins, porpoises, whales and basking sharks is illegal, police say A man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-119699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}