THIS TRIDENT was far from broken.
Forced to tackle pounding wind and pouring rain for more than four hours, Barbados’ youngest commissioned Coast Guard vessel pulled off a stunning at-sea rescue yesterday along Dominica’s rough southeasterly coast, saving 202 stranded Dominicans from the tiny village of Petite Savanne.
The area had been declared a special disaster area by the Dominican government on Sunday, and hundreds were forced to wait on a small beach that still had scattered remains of their destroyed houses on the sand, hoping for a lifeline.
It came in the form of the HMBS Trident, which battled shallow waters measuring just nine metres down, tonnes of that pesky Sargassum seaweed, and a nine-knot headwind from the northeast.
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