POLICE have released CCTV footage of a dangerous jet-ski rider seen speeding in shallow water at 35mph - just yards from children on a canoeing lesson.
In the video, the rider can be seen hurtling at about 30 knots near a beach and moored yachts on the River Blackwater, near Maldon - more than threes time the eight knot speed limit.
Investigating officer, Sgt Paul Rawson, said: "There is a speed limit of 8 knots in this area and it is in place to stop this sort of dangerous behaviour.
"People swim from that beach, young people learn to sail in small dinghies and there are small dinghies manoeuvring. It is no place for a high powered Personal Water Craft travelling at about 35mph."
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