Patent ID: 7458869

Claim:
A personal watercraft comprising: a body including a hull and a deck covering the hull from above; a water jet pump configured to eject rearward water sucked from a water intake provided on a bottom surface of the hull; an engine room that is formed at a front portion of the body and is configured to accommodate an engine for driving the water jet pump; and an engine hood covering a deck opening formed on a region of the deck that is located above the engine room; wherein the engine hood is provided with an air-water separating structure having a front space formed in a front portion of the engine hood, an upper air passage through which the front space and outside of the body communicate with each other, and a lower air passage through which the front space of the engine hood and a region at a predetermined depth position in an interior of the engine room communicate with each other, and wherein the upper air passage includes a rear upper air passage extending forward and rearward in a side portion within the engine hood such that the rear upper air passage does not extend across a body center line and opens in a right region or a left region in a rear portion of the engine hood, to connect the front space in the engine hood to an outside region of the body that is located behind the engine hood.