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Yachters continue to make their way to Trinidad and Tobago seeking safe harbour in the wake of hurricane Beryl.

On Tuesday Vice president of the Marine Services Association Jesse James predicted the arrival of many more vessels.


Nicole M Romany tells us more.
Transcript
00:00According to Jesse James of the Marine Services Association, scores of vessels were expected to make their way to Trinidad today.
00:09He says he expects between 80 to 200 arriving.
00:14James tells us some are from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, but the majority are from Grenada.
00:21He adds that some vessels even needed rescuing due to the severe weather conditions.
00:28I had to make a reunion with a private vessel, Captain Fraser, on a local fishing boat, Perseverance.
00:35Managed to get him to go out about 40 miles, just on the border, before they slipped into Venezuela.
00:42And this was a family of four, husband and wife, a Canadian family, which I'm a one-year-old and a three-year-old kid.
00:48Managed to get them. Them people can't stop talking to me, because we grabbed them and threw them all the way there.
00:55And then another one, they were coming in from Grenada also.
00:59And just in the boker, before they made the turn to come in, they broke down and, oh boy, they were panicking.
01:05He tells of a French vessel that also encountered difficulty.
01:09His sails ripped apart. He lost his engines and he started to drift.
01:15And he was right again on the border.
01:18So there was a French Navy vessel that was coming from Martinique to try and assist.
01:23By the time they would have gotten here, he would have long gone into Venezuela.
01:26So our Coast Guard and the support from Coast Guard, Captain Don Polo and his right-hand man, Daniel Castani,
01:33they made a decision to go and grab him and pull him in.
01:37And then I made an arrangement to get a private, same Captain Fraser from the fishing boat.
01:42He went in and met them and they handed him over.
01:45He notes that the Minister of Trade and Industry also visited the site yesterday to see how things were progressing.
01:52So I have to say kudos to our line minister, Minister Gopiskun.
01:57The minister came down yesterday.
01:59She called me and said, Jesse, I want to come and see what's going on.
02:02It's a site visit. And she came down.
02:04So MSAT, the Marine Services Association of Trinidad and Tobago, I'm the vice president.
02:08Mr. Peake, Peter Peake is your president.
02:11And we created a MSAT operation centre.
02:15And again, it's a camaraderie effort going on, inshallah.
02:20Volunteer basis.
02:21Volunteer.
02:22Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.
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