Do I need a motorboat driver's license to rent a motorboat at the seaside?

The Administrative Measures for Motorboat Driver Training of China Motorboat Sports Association (draft for comment, attached) is applicable to the relevant units and individuals who drive motorboats to engage in water sports, tourism, recreation, fitness, adventure and other activities (hereinafter referred to as sports and leisure fitness activities) in People's Republic of China (PRC).

Personnel engaged in the above activities must hold a valid motorboat driver's license of the corresponding level.

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"Faced with the temptation of high profits in the market, many lawless elements take risks and secretly compete with law enforcement officers." According to Lin, director of Sanya Port Border Police Station, with the approaching of Sanya tourist season, many lawless elements privately use motorboats to engage in illegal sea tourism in Sanya Bay.

Because of the major safety hazards of this kind of "three noes" ships, it is easy to cause maritime safety accidents and endanger the lives and property of tourists. In order to avoid the attack of public security organs, some lawless elements adopted the way of "changing places" and mobile operations, which brought difficulties to the rectification work.

To this end, the Sanya Public Security Frontier Detachment actively cooperated with the sea surveillance department, and according to the operating characteristics and driving routes of the "three no" motorboats, it took the form of multi-point exploration and carpet investigation to rectify the "three no" motorboats in Sanya Bay.

On September 19, the detachment, together with the maritime surveillance department, seized three illegally operated "three noes" motorboats in the South China Sea section of Sanya according to the preliminary work deployment.

People's Daily Online-Sanya cracked down on illegal operations at sea and seized three "black" motorboats.