Watch: ‘Shocking Near Miss’ – Jet Ski Convoy Passes Under Comino Arch Before Fatal Collapse As Maltese Explorer Warns…

A popular explorer and advocate for heritage conservation has taken to social media to warn people seemingly being “encouraged to visit dangerous sites” after a fatal accident in Comino over the weekend.

“A shocking near miss?” Conrad Neil Gatt wrote on Facebook yesterday, sharing a clip of the photogenic Comino arch which collapsed on Saturday evening and killed a tourist passing underneath it on a jet ski.

In the video, a whole convoy of jet skis can be seen being led by a boat underneath the arch and its flimsy top. Other people who had recently visited the site, including a kayaker, have since described how, just weeks ago, they had spotted cracks in the natural arch, despite kayaks and jet skis passing underneath it every day.

“Instead of being careful and avoiding dangers, it seems like we’re advertising them and encouraging Maltese people and tourists alike to visit them even more,” Gatt angrily wrote on Facebook yesterday evening.

“Transport Malta and the Malta Tourism Authority should do some homework (along with geologists) and go round all these coastal sites with imminent danger, especially during the summer months,” he continued.

Gatt continued to said that he had warned about a similarly dangerous and deadly site in Marsaskala just five days before this weekend’s fatal incident on Comino, finishing by saying there should be an awareness campaign on social media and the TV to make sure everyone knows about these dangers.

What do you make of Gatt’s video and warnings?

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David Grech Urpani

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