(4 Jul 2024)
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Bridgetown, Barbados – 3 July 2024
1. Wide of boats damaged by Hurricane Beryl
2. Various of damaged boats
3. Fisherman, Everton Brathwaite, walking on his boat
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Everton Brathwaite, fisherman:
“I (have) never really experienced a system like this yet, of this magnitude, but, yeah, I don’t think that nobody wants to go through this here."
5. Brathwaite talking on boat
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Everton Brathwaite, fisherman:
“All the vessels in here have damage, all have damage, structural damage, but we got a few vessels that are under water. We don’t know how much the toll is right now, but we estimate about 30 or maybe 40 vessels under the water.”
7. Various of men removing debris
8. Close of boat
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dave Hinds, Managing Director of Hinds Transport:
“Progress is not very fast because a lot of the boats are damaged and there are boats that have sunk just right where we need to lift out, so we’re having to lift from further than we would like to lift from. After we finish this we then have to try to retrieve the boats that are under water. There are over 26 boats underwater at this time.”
10. Wide of boat being pulled out of water
11. Mid of boat out of the water
12. Various of damaged boats and debris
STORYLINE:
Fishermen in Barbados on Wednesday were assessing the damage caused to their vessels after Hurricane Beryl swept through the southeast Caribbean.
According to the fishermen, all the boats at the Bridgetown marina suffered some degree of damage, while a few entirely sank under big waves that washed over the docks.
Barbados was caught in the tail end of Hurricane Beryl, which passed by the island on Monday as a category 4 storm with winds of at least 130 mph (209 kilometers per hour), enough to cause significant damage.
Dave Hinds, of the Hinds transport service, said that more than 26 boats were underwater and explained that rescue works would be slow.
Footage showed the water in the marina littered with the debris of smashed boats.
Fishermen were eager to resume their activities.
Fishing in Barbados is a big attraction for tourists who rent boats, but it is also an industry that provides income and employment for thousands of people on the island.
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm demonstrated the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts said.
Beryl smashed multiple records even before its major hurricane-level winds approached land.
The powerful storm is acting more like monsters that form in the peak of hurricane season thanks mostly to water temperatures as hot or hotter than the region normally gets in September, five hurricane experts told The Associated Press.
AP video shot by: Ricardo Mazalan.
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