Marine hazard at Turtle Bay

The owners have been for years tying their boats on weekends onto some wooden pilings abandoned by the Americans since World War Two.

Recently, the boat operator has built an illegal large wooden shack and cut off all the pilings at water level.

Now there is nowhere to tie the boats and the pilings which extend way out into the bay cannot be seen as they are now just under the surface of the water.

Death is on the way.

Pleasure craft whose owners are not aware of these pilings are going to start crashing into them and causing serious injury and death of children.

The Chaguaramas Development Authority, the Coast Guard, the Harbour Master and the Marine Police have to take immediate action and place marine markers to warn of this newly created marine hazard.

DR DAVID SALINGER Maraval