{"id":2993,"date":"2024-03-17T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T07:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/2024\/03\/17\/wear-life-jackets-for-water-activities-urged-tourism-minister\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T07:31:30","slug":"wear-life-jackets-for-water-activities-urged-tourism-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"Wear life jackets for water activities, urged Tourism Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-id=\"2990\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/drowning8334854203113344408-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/drowning8334854203113344408-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/drowning8334854203113344408-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/drowning8334854203113344408.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew, advised all tourists to wear life jackets when participating in water-based activities such as swimming, snorkeling and diving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wearing a life jacket at sea is necessary to avoid any misadventures. Taking safety measures is for your own good. Refrain from taking risks, even if you are adept at swimming,&#8221; she stated in a release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liew issued this advice following a drowning incident involving a 51-year-old Chinese tourist who reportedly drowned in shallow waters between Sapi Island and Gaya Island on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"2991\" src=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/screenshot_20240317_144726_google1026622355193055105-1024x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/screenshot_20240317_144726_google1026622355193055105-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/screenshot_20240317_144726_google1026622355193055105-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/screenshot_20240317_144726_google1026622355193055105-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/screenshot_20240317_144726_google1026622355193055105.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our islands are popular holiday destinations for both locals and tourists alike. This unfortunate incident at Beach A on Sapi Island is heart-wrenching and regrettable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to have holidays ending in tragedies like this, as it could hurt Sabah&#8217;s tourism industry,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Director of Sabah Parks, Dr Maklarin Lakim, informed the minister that there were approximately 400 visitors and tourists on the island at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sabah Parks, an agency under the Ministry of Tourism, Culture, and Environment, may study whether there is a need to increase the number of lifeguards on Sabah&#8217;s islands patronized by locals and tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Christina Liew, advised all tourists to wear life jackets when participating in water-based activities such as swimming, snorkeling and diving. &#8220;Wearing a life jacket at sea is necessary to avoid any misadventures. Taking safety measures is for your own good. Refrain from taking risks, even if you are adept&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot_20240317_152704_Google.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holidaysabah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}