The Ministry of Health advises that Tobacco Bay Beach has been closed to swimmers due to higher than normal levels of water-borne bacteria.
 
The Department of Health conducts regular testing of seawater and has closed the beach to swimmers and watersports today, due to bacterial levels above the Department’s acceptable limit. Further testing and evaluation is underway and the beach will reopen once bacteria levels drop to normal. Inclement weather and wind direction can have an effect on bacterial levels.
 
The concessionaire at Tobacco Bay Beach has been informed.
 
For more information about Government’s seawater testing, see www.gov.bm/seawater-monitoring-programme-bathing-beaches