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one of my update videos updating hurricane Maria hurricane Irma and the
damage that was left behind here in the Caribbean a number of islands as we know
Puerto Rico here st. qua just to the right of it st. Thomas st.
Martin Dominica they are off the cruise ship itineraries for quite some time we
all know about the power outages the water problems food problems logistical
problems some islands have it better than others but it is a mess in some of
these spots we're looking here at beautiful pictures of st. Thomas in its
glory days it wasn't unusual for up to three or four cruise ships at a time to
come into st. Thomas for a day this is the cable car ride that a lot of the
tourists on cruise ships have ridden and the view is stunning it's just so
beautiful what a great scene this unfortunately isn't going to be repeated
for quite some time the airport in st. Thomas just opened after three weeks of
being down to commercial flights the Kansas Air National Guard has been
operating the airport using generators and radar systems that have been flown
in by the US military to bring the airport back up and running
permanent radar stations are being reinstalled from scratch st. Martin's
same thing this is a shot here of st. Martin also in its glory days its
airport just barely opened and limited commercial flights are starting to come
in and out of the island along with of course relief flights that continue
Dominica Airport they're talking about it just opening as well and Dominica's
even worse off than st. Thomas and st. Martin here we can see you know how
beautiful st. Martin you know was before the hurricane hit and I have a shot here
of the port where all the container ships would come in drop off food water
you know supplies hardware supplies generators cars car parts you name it
fuel everything else this Harbor here this area is completely decimated by the
hurricane and is still in rough shape here's a quick shot of it here and
overhead shot and you can just see everything is disheveled warehouses were
flooded out blown off power is gone water systems gone everything has to be
rebuilt from scratch this is at least until the new year before this is really
back up and running and even then it might only be a 20 25 percent capacity
of course soon as a disaster happened we saw images like this from the air
total devastation of private homes hotels resorts you know people who make
their living off the water fishing and taking tourists out decimated the roads
are gone you know we know in Puerto Rico st. Martin st. Thomas everywhere else
there were mudslides in summer islands the muscle was brought in the National
Guard came in FEMA has come in a lot of supplies flown in and now supplies are
being shipped in and and replenished and they're trying to get the infrastructure
up and running this is a shot here of the airport in st. Thomas it was down as
I said up until only a few days ago and even now the terminal is still a mess
it's badly damaged and so you know it's not a pretty place to fly into these
days unfortunately here is a shot of Cayman Islands Grand Cayman just off
Georgetown ships who come that come to the Cayman Islands have to park in the
water about half a mile offshore you cannot bring a ship to a pier in the
Cayman Island so you just aren't equipped for that and so for you to get
on or to the island you gonna have to take a tender and it is not uncommon on
most days for two or three ships to a visit the Cayman Islands sometimes four
but this year this winter 250,000 additional tourists are expected 70
additional ships there are going to be six ships per day waiting to offload and
reload passengers so if you're visiting Cayman Islands on a cruise this year get
ready for mayhem because the dock the pier can only handle a couple of tenders
at a time line up so the Nohr and a lot of it is in open sunshine
without even cover it is going to be rough so the cruise might be a good deal
but the on short excursions might not be as enjoyable as they were in the past
because there's just gonna be that much many more tourists one and a half
million tourists today used to go to st. Maarten and st. Thomas alone they are
now being diverted to all the other Caribbean stops and Cayman Islands is
one of the places where they're headed Grenada is another they're adding 28
ships this winter seventy thousand more tourists are going to visit Grenada
they're happy about it but I'll tell you as a tourist you might not be as happy
when the excursions are overbooked or totally booked up buses everywhere taxis
all over the place complete mayhem and you're just gonna have to get used to
noisy hectic conditions at some of these places now ports like Labadie and and
other private islands that some of the cruise ships run they won't run into
that problem Royal Caribbean will take their cruise ships to labadie as they've
always done and you'll be able to ride the zipline and the water slides and
enjoy the beach with the cabanas because they limit their own ships into their
own luxury ports of course but places like Grenada and ohio's the Cayman
Islands Jamaica Cozumel in Mexico it's it's open season I mean these these
these countries and these ports are desperate for the business and they'll
accept additional ships if they can and it might be that three or four of them
get to park at the pier and two or three of them will park in the water in the
harbor and tender in so you may find that cruise ships a cruise holidays this
winter might be you know attractively priced but there's a price you're going
to pay for that deal and it might be that you save one hundred fifty dollars
on the the itinerary cost but you're going to pay dearly for it onshore with
hordes of other tourists so that ship we're looking at there is the Explorer
of the Seas it holds 4,500 passengers and we know
that they're now ships applying the Caribbean with 5,500 passengers
each you multiply you know four or five thousand passengers times five cruise
ships in one port you talk at 1520 thousand people that are coming in at a
time this is just crazy the Caymans announced know if I've mentioned it but
twenty-one thousand passengers are gonna debark disembark on the island on the
14th of november of this year we we already know that for a fact the island
only has 35,000 people living there so it's gonna be quite hectic well we'll
have to see how it all turns out this winter anyway this was Bruce with
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