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when cruise ship company MSC decided to

build their own Paradise Island they

knew it wouldn't be plain sailing

they've set themselves 3 years to turn

the small abandoned island of ocean key

from a junk filled pile of sand to a

Tropical Oasis it's a project unlike

anything attempted before set to cost

$200 million and test the resolve of

everyone involved how many times it

usually take to fire there a fuel

problem they've spent months

meticulously clearing the island of

rubbish shaping the sand and putting in

the groundworks for their Vision C

up it's an operation that has already

taken far longer than they anticipated

everything we did yesterday just broke

loose guests have already bought tickets

to visit and more than 4,000 are due to

arrive on the maiden cruise ship Voyage

in just a year's time and they're

expecting Perfection we're going to be

on but having guests already booked

isn't the only pressure the company has

also committed to making Ocean Key a

flagship environmentally responsible

Island and they've set themselves a

Target to be awarded the coveted Marine

reserve status they plan to resurrect a

struggling coral reef protect the native

species and plant thousands of trees but

will it be enough there are reefs here

let's try and do something something

about it with time ticking down can MSC

cruises safely Mark out the crucial

shipping Lane can they construct a

suitable Marina to attract the world's

most expensive Yachts there's no way you

can

put

disaster and how will they cope when one

of the biggest hurricanes in decades

hits the

island will this island ever resemble

Paradise

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when MSC cruises decided to build their

own Island they scoured the globe for

the perfect location Ocean Key lies in

the islands of the Bahamas 65 Mi

southeast of Florida this former sand

mine presents a challenging canvas on

which to build a Paradise Island it has

no infrastructure power or resources the

remote location makes even the simplest

task a logistical Nightmare and there

are piles of broken down metal discarded

and littered around the site this is a

project that will stretch this team to

their

limit with opening day drawing nearer

the team need to construct a brand new

Marina and lengthy Breakwater they need

to erect a towering Lighthouse and

undertake the placement of huge pipes to

make out the Deep Water Shipping

Lane and they need to cover the island

with more than 4,000 trees transforming

it from Sand covered yellow and white to

a tropical green

Oasis but it's not just on land that MSC

need to work hard they've made a pledge

to turn the oceans into a protected

Marine

area from the outset of the build the

company have committed to make this

island a benchmark for conservation

helping the environment and ensuring the

construction enhances the habitats found

on land and in the surrounding water and

if they can do enough to impress the

Bahamian government they'll be awarded a

special title Marine reserve status but

can they get

it before any work can begin on

protecting and restoring the Island's

natural ecosystem workers need to know

what they're dealing with so experts

have arrived to conduct a rapid

environmental assessment or

Rea we need to determine which type of

ecosystems are you know in the Nearshore

Waters of this key whether it be coral

reefs sea grasses and in turn we're

going to be measuring the abundance of

fishes to determine how healthy the

populations are of of these these

ecosystems to do that Owen o Shay and

his team are using brvs or baited remote

underwater video

surveys so we're just about to drop this

brav unit um just Southwest of Ocean Key

about half an artical mile um we've put

1,000 G of a very oily Bait fish in that

cage and we just need to attach this

camera and then we're going to drop it

down and leave it for 60 minutes all

right that's it these might look like

modified sh in Trolley but actually

they're sophisticated devices that allow

Owen to film all of the creatures below

the surface Owen hopes there'll be an

abundance of healthy life but all the

years of mining for sand means there

could be

nothing historically this island has

been exploited for its resources with

very little scientific data to work out

how these these historical mining

activities have impacted these

environments so you know as a scientist

it's a no-brainer for me I think that

everyone should be exhibiting this level

of

responsibility MSC have invited Owen's

team to Ocean Key to get the best

knowledge of what they could do to help

the island flourish but there's a chance

that what they find could put

construction work on hold no one's ever

really looked at the uh the ecosystem

Health within this specific

area there could be turtles that Nest on

these beaches where they con

construction lights might influence the

way that the hatchlings move towards the

water um there could be very important

spawning aggregations of important fish

around here whatever is found here could

be critical to the Island's progress but

the findings can't be analyzed on site

Owen and his team of surveyors now have

to wait till they're back at their lab

to see what species have appeared on

camera you guys are awesome thank you in

a few weeks they'll be back in the

Bahamas to present their findings

while the scientists crunch their

numbers work can't afford to stop the

building project is set to cost $200

million and in charge of that spend is

company chairman Pier Francesco

Vago and 18 months into the build he's

visiting Ocean Key to check on

progress here she

is wow

how's your baby looking oh she's

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gorgeous after meeting the team Mr Vago

gets to explore his Island nice and hot

huh

huh this is another standing

Beach he he Blends in

blend but it's well protected on this

side where the big the the larger beach

would be

right but I can see that it's exactly

going in the right direction so even

more

exciting okay let's Carry On Let's look

some more the project is a little behind

schedule the huge cleanup has prevented

any building work being done but now the

first wooden structures are starting to

appear designers have opted for an

unusual method housing for the 135 staff

who will live on Ocean Key has been

built off site and shipped in as

complete pieces which can be assembled

in a matter of hours there's several

miles of utility pipes and power being

laid underground so how much more

utilities do we need to do so still

plenty but all this is already

linked so there is no price difference

price difference it might not yet

resemble Paradise but the posit POS

Vibes are music to the ears of project

manager Chris Ellis Mr Vargo is

incredibly impressed with the work

that's been going on at the moment the

guys have worked incredibly hard to get

it to this stage he's just happy to be

on the island I think finally to see it

the environmental transformation is all

important and Mr Vago is invited to

plant one of the first of over 4,000

trees okay guys you're doing a great

job now there is a 4,000

999 more down this

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way look at the color of the water it's

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amazing even if we left it as it

was with the right drink and AD just

deck you know I think you will do the

job it'll be a great job very

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happy happy chairman there's a happy

Chris

is a reasonable day in

paradise but the visit isn't

over on the southeast of the island the

team have built the marina which is

supposed to house a plethora of

expensive super Yachts but this Marina

is experiencing some extremely choppy

Waters

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disaster the island of ocean key in the

Bahamas is being turned into a paradise

Retreat and with just the most basic

infrastructure this is a total

transformation and a Race Against Time

14 months before it's due to receive its

first guests company chairman V

the man in overall charge is visiting

the island to check on

progress but he's found a problem in the

marina on the southeast of the

island company chairman Vago hopes that

it'll be a home for a fleet of super

Yachts belonging to the wealthy

guests but the large swell of the ocean

in the marina is giving him

concerns there's a lot chop yeah so here

I want to take a picture because uh this

is a

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problem there's no way you can

put the prevailing winds in this part of

the ocean run from north to south

meaning the south coast of Ocean Key can

be prone to choppy

water far from ideal for parking an

expensive yacht

but these are fundamental mistakes Chris

but there's nothing we can do about what

do you mean there's nothing can do

there's no way the marina could be moved

at this late stage and all the money in

the world can't alter the wind

direction the plan was always to use the

marina as a birth and occasion birth for

recreational pleasure boats and the odd

um super yacht we can't sell that

experience to guests if we have a

washing machine type effect in the

marina so that idea of that guest

experience is

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gone okay so we need to group and have a

meeting as soon as possible on

this

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yeah okay this is it okay all right

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thanks one of those moments as a project

manager where you realize there a

problem you haven't solved it your

chairman is annoyed with you frustrated

and

angry to fix this will be a costly and

timec consuming

task the pressure is

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on while Mr Vago leaves Chris to fix the

problem attention turns to the

Environmental Conservation of Ocean Key

scientists have gathered in the

neighboring island of bimin to report

the findings of their rapid

environmental assessment to reveal just

how much work there is to be done well

thank you everybody for making it all

the way to bimy from various places it's

been 6 weeks since the team did a survey

in the waters around Ocean Key they sent

cameras into the ocean and the results

have been startling

quite a lot of fish um almost 1,400

individuals from 58

species it's a promising snapshot with

lots of marine life beginning to

flourish again in the waters around the

island but it's not all good news coral

reefs are in short supply and many have

been damaged by the earlier mining works

there is a global problem facing reefs

there are reefs here um they're clearly

in Decline and suffering um pretty

severely

let's try and do something about it the

team have decided to try and save the

struggling coral and they discuss a plan

to move existing Coral away from the

vulnerable areas and into other parts of

the Island's Waters but it's a risky

strategy if a storm comes and takes out

a reef or if a coral disease like the

mid 80s wipes out the elorn coral

there's nothing going to come back for a

long time I mean there's not a lot of

coral here for a reason so

maybe we'll be

successful I feel very comfortable about

growing the coral but I really grappled

with where we're going to restore and

what we're going to do but MSC cruises

wants its visitors to the island to have

the chance to interact with and learn

about the coral so they've decided that

the removed Coral will be planted in a

safe area and encourage to grow very

viable to do restoration even in an area

where there's going to be snorklers

there's also some concerning findings

about a local species called Queen conch

stocks are low when they should be

thriving it's something that general

manager Michelle will be keeping a close

eye on I find conch is really indigenous

to the Bahamas it's very uh apparent in

the Bahamas it's a dish out here and

it's in D Straits and I think it's it's

really needing our help the conference

ends with a clear plan of how this

island can be restored but now the hard

work begins to turn all these plans into

a thriving ecological success story but

can it be done in

time one of the reasons that Ocean Key

was selected to be a new Paradise Island

was an existing deep water Channel first

dug out in the 1970s that runs right

alongside it it's perfect for large

cruise ships to get up close but the

deep water channel is narrow and

impossible to navigate without some

sizable signposts so Rick Alexander has

been tasked with an operation to Mark

out the water Channel and they'll be

using some specially made navigation

pipe

pylons the navigation a pipe piles Mark

the channel so the ship knows how to

navigate and knows he's in deep enough

water and knows he's not going to get

any trouble with shallow

water all channels are marked basically

with red and green markers that way the

ship's captains knows where the shallow

water is on his right he knows where the

shallow water is on his left and he has

a beacon that's directing him right down

the center to protect him from getting

too close to the to the shallow water

and damaging The Vessel

there these giant 105 ft long pylons

need to be maneuvered and drilled down

into the seabed so that they're left

poking their heads above the water and

visible to any ships arriving the ship

will come in as he approach which is

marker number 10 he now knows that he

can begin his turn if he goes any

farther east than 11 and 12 he's going

to be in shallow water but getting the

pipes embedded 40 ft into the seabed

means some serious heavy lifting pile

driving is always dangerous working on

the water makes it even more dangerous

it's very easy with a pile this size on

the sea to get yourself in trouble and

possibly even do something as much as

turn over a crane

Rick's team have already marked out the

precise location for each pylon using

GPS over the next 2 months the pylons

are taken out to sea moved into position

and drilled down but there's one more to

go and now the team face a Race Against

Time to get it in before bad weather

hits your biggest challenge is the Comm

to sees the easier it is to drive these

heavy pipes and this is the one that

I've been looking for the last one we're

going to drive this one today when we

finish driving this pile today I can

relax a good bit there's plenty to do

before Rick can put his feet up first

task is to get the pylon

vertical let's get the Dozer over here

to push it a little bit we're going to

get either a loader or a dozer to give

it a t a push on that end which will

make it start sliding once it starts

sliding then we'll have better control

all right Freddy cable up Bo up all stop

all stop I don't want it to come up and

get on the slope and swing don't let it

swing with the pylon now upright it can

be floated out to the ocean we look

good you got anything locked down out at

Sea the team are working within inches

of accuracy there's no room for

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error once everything is safe lower the

pile down into the water so that the

water help stabilize the bottom of the

pile yeah you need to get closer so they

can get out on there with the crane

operator unable to see the precise

position it needs to be guided in by

workers precariously stood on the

concrete platform how's it watch the

backside

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with the pylon in place it now needs to

be drilled down into the seabed and that

requires a Monumental hammer or in this

case

two this is the vibratory hammer you get

5,000 PSI pressure squeezing this

cylinder into this jaw so you got a good

grip the energy then travels down the

pipe pile to travel all the way to the

tip so that it's making the tip do the

damage and eat through the material and

hopefully through the rock now with the

pylon deep enough into the seabed to

hold its own position it's time to wheel

out the big guns this is the diesel

impact hammer with fuel injection it

literally sets off small explosions

above the pylon which forces Pistons

down onto the pylon to plunge it deeper

into the seabed

the weight of the Piston creates the

impact the fuel explodes the explosion

of the fuel sends the Piston back up

come back down and the explosion occurs

again the only thing harder than that

pile in that rock is my head if the

hammer don't drop it we're going to hang

me by the ankles and we're going to drop

my head on the pile and something's

going to give and it won't be my head

Rick's unorthodox Plan B might be

required there's a problem with the

hammer it's it's misfiring how many

times it usually take to

fire is a fuel problem sometimes it'll

just like an old car it'll take three or

four licks to get it to warm

up with the day wearing on the hammer

creeps into life and begins its

important

job 2 months after the Dr operation

started the final pylon is in place just

one more Hammer blow should secure it in

position and this phase of building

Paradise is another that can be ticked

off so my reputation is still going to

be intact we will finish the

night this is the last major hurdle for

glf so it just represents a lot of

anticipation a lot of person stress

because I needed to get it done it's the

end of our last major

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Milestone the island of ocean key should

be a Haven for marine life its position

in the Bahamas means it ought to be a

home for coral fish and underwater

plants but a survey has found much of

the coral here is struggling to thrive

thanks in part to the years of mining

the that

occurred MSC Cruz's vision for ocean key

is to protect and preserve this piece of

paradise restoring the ecosystem and

allowing guests to experience the

natural beauty of the Bahamas to help

realize that Vision they've removed

large sections of coral and relocated it

in carefully chosen spots around the

island where they hope it will flourish

the Carl that we removed were very

significant to The Reef building and

health of a reef and so if it is that we

can improve one of the outer reefs by

adding more Coral to them then why not

Dei bethl is from the Forest Group a

team checking on the environmental work

on Ocean Key she'll be assessing how

successful MSC has been in conserving

the Island's marine life and if she's

impressed it'll carry MSC cruises a long

way towards being awarded their coveted

Marine reserve status today she's

invited diver nol janetsky to check out

some of the reef to see how much healthy

Coral there is and crucially whether any

of the relocated Coral is

surviving it already

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going well we didn't find the relocated

Carl unfortunately

um but actually this Reef uh looks

pretty healthy it's mixed news the

presence of a good coral reef is

hardening but if null can't find any

trace of the relocated Coral then that

move might have failed and the reefs

around the island might have been

damaged it's time for another look this

look like it could be

it around 10 to 15 M below the surface

this coral reef has an abundance of fish

and nestled in amongst it is a metal tag

a sign that this is the repopulated

coral it's not just surviving it's

thriving

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how was it it was really good what did

you think um well clearly there's quite

there's a lot of uh transplants and like

I was able to identify the numbers on

them lot of fish Lobster so everybody's

everybody everybody's happy down there

yeah say um you know good work well done

thank you thank you while the coral

needs to be monitored for the next few

years to ensure it continues to grow

it's a great sign that all the en

environmental effort shown by MSC is

reaping rewards and improving the

ecosystems around Ocean Key but it's not

just in the sea that the environment is

important on the land there's an

operation underway to turn this pile of

white sand into a lush green Oasis in

charge of that complex operation is zoer

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Saudi when I just heard the word of oeni

for me it was a challenge the job was to

change the desert island to a Green

Island we start the one on the

bottom it's a job that has to be done in

phases the trees are shipped in from

Fort Lauderdale and when they arrive

they need to be planted immediately

today a shipment has arrived that zo's

team need to plant

now today we have to plant 100 trees in

this area we have to do it quick we have

to do it fast and everything must to be

well done we have no time to do it two

times and here it's it's more hot more

salty so we need to plant the trees as

soon as we receive them give them a lot

of water fertilizer Miz and let them

grow remarkably each individual tree has

its own place on the island a detailed

plan has plotted where each one should

go within a matter of inches and it's

the job of of zo's team to turn that

plan into action we have a server with

the GPS and you have the design drawing

on his GPS each Flag represents a

position a final position of a tree with

flags marking out the position of each

tree the team get to

work the different species have been

carefully selected 90% are indigenous to

this area Hardy and capable of surviving

tropical storms they include coconut

Palms Satin Leaf and Jamaica

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Dogwood each tree is an expensive asset

and some have been growing for up to

five years specially for use on this

island the team plant already 25 units

just in this

area you can see uh the trees in the

right places they are not moving with

the wind so it was a good

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job this morning everything here was

like

desertic after like 8 hours of work you

can see the green you can see the magic

color it makes me very

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happy as the day draws to a close

there's an unexpected arrival 10 more

large trees that need urgent attention

attention one has been pinpointed to be

pride of place in the welcome Plaza this

is the first thing that visitors to

Ocean Key will see as they disembark the

cruise ship and the tree they've chosen

needs to be planted now those Tre are

the biggest one of of the island they

are also the most

expensive and we don't want any risk

with those trees so we save them today

we need to plant them today

the price of this tree

it's three time any regular Coconuts on

the site and it's regarding the size

it's very hard to find to find them

so it's like a precious tree and we

don't want to waste it the team have to

work quickly but delicately they can't

afford for the tree to be damaged you

need to rise it a little bit from this

side is too low

here it's the the welcome area so

everything need to be perfect now I

guess it's

okay now it's

okay after 2 hours the tree is in it's

been a long day but zoer is pleased with

the progress I was stressed because the

work is hard here everything was done so

this night I will fall sleep

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peaceful when company chairman Pier

Franchesco Vago visited Ocean Key he

spotted a major problem he noticed that

the marina designed to house a fleet of

expensive yachts and Excursion boats was

being buffeted by high winds and choppy

Waters rendering it useless so now it's

over to project manager Chris Ellis to

find a solution

the solution in essence put a permanent

brake water in um which covers about 3

quarters of the entrance to the marina

and then somehow create a another

barrier to prevent those southeasterly

waves coming

in the Breakwater is built up from a

series of pylons plunged down into the

seabed a sheet pylon comi wall is then

attached beneath the surface of the

ocean to stop the strong time disturbing

the quiet Marina space Chris and the

design team have opted for two

breakwaters but it will add lengthy

constructions to the already stretched

building team's workload all this work

is a costly and timec consuming effort

the team hadn't prepared for one thing

I've learned working on Ocean Key that

nothing is cheap and everything is

expensive we're certainly

talking2 or3 million at at the cheapest

option

with just weeks to go the Breakwater

construction is underway and it's one of

the most precise builds of the entire

project we only have uh maybe a range of

uh 2 or 3 mm the piles most to be very

exctly that's why we use all the time

the surveyor on landine the surveyor

directs the pylons to a precise location

but it's time consuming

work bad weather and rock beneath the

surface can cause delays and every

second counts when opening day is on the

horizon we have a down line time and

that's a lot of pressure for all the

team fortunately work is now underway

and the first of 15 pylons can be

knocked into place a hammer crunching

each one into the seabed it'll take

several weeks to maneuver each pylon but

no sooner has work started on this phase

than it stops there's a

distraction Dorian continue to

strengthen getting a little bigger this

is a very unusual track coming out of

the Caravan into the Atlantic and not

moving to the uh West but moving to the

West Northwest a tropical storm is

making its way through the Caribbean and

it could be heading straight for ocean

key so first item on the agenda is

Hurricane Dorian it's hitting hard now

with rain and winds up to 70 M an hour

but it looks like Saturday or Sunday

we'll have the full force of whatever it

is so we need to make sure we have our

on island preparation plan in place and

then the other part is making sure we

have the provision for getting people

off the

island hurricanes aren't unusual here in

fact they've had one every year of the

bill but some storms can be heavier than

others and if a big one hits it could be

catastrophic for Ocean

Key project manager Rick is already

preparing hurricane Dorian she's on the

way we thought she was just going to be

a small thing without too much to worry

about she may actually be become a

category 3 before she reaches ocean King

if the eye if the center of of Dorian

happens to come over Ocean Key it will

be it'll be actually should be

devastating there probably won't be a

tree

standing it'll certainly delay the open

and it'll be a lot more work and a lot

longer before we reach this point

again it's not just the buildings that

are at risk lives are too so Rick and

the other bosses here are arranging for

everyone to be evacuated first by boat

and then by plane that's not

straightforward we're going to fly you

guys out on the afternoon flight

today you guys out of Grand Bahamas yall

are on the morning

flight if you miss the small boat this

one coming back

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all anyone can do now is watch and wait

to see just how much damage the storm

will

bring Dorian is expected to devastate

the Bahamas tomorrow still dorian's path

remains hard to

predict it really slows down over the

Bahamas and because of it they're asking

people to evacuate the northern Bahamas

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with construction of ocean key in full

swing the island was dealt a hammer

blow as hurricane Dorian rolled into the

Caribbean 98% of workers left their

posts and those that remained set about

securing the island rather than

developing it before the storm took hold

and this storm was one of the worst in

living memory large SES of the Bahamas

were flattened and more than 50 lives

were

lost but remarkably Ocean Key just 240

km from the eye of the storm survived

with little more than cosmetic

damage the good news is that um our

island is actually really held up the

trees are up I think we have maybe one

or two that went down nothing really

dramatic now it's a question of finding

out about all the workers here because

most of them do come from Freeport sad

to see what happened to them a lot of

our construction guys might have to stay

behind and help out their own families

and friends these are a main

construction guys so if we don't see

them back then well you know concerning

we need to figure out what's happening

with all that it's a miracle that the

island hasn't been destroyed

particularly as many of the structures

were incomplete and the trees had only

just been planted but the delays caused

by evacuation mean that everything's at

least a month

behind but one key project that has

powered ahead over recent months is the

lighthouse measuring 98 ft in height

it'll be the show piece of the island

and give guests a

360° view of Ocean Key and the

surrounding

Seas the shell of the lighthouse has

been manufactured off site and engineer

sonita Dean has overseen the

construction of it on the island it's a

massive challenge

logistically um technically not so much

but logistically it's massive because we

we have all this constraints on Ocean

cave in the middle of the ocean very far

away from all um uh resources you try to

do as much as possible off site and then

you bring on site so I think it's more

it's a more efficient way of

building we designed it in a way that

it's going to be a big puzzle that you

basically fit together on site you

install part by part and you've got a

manual and it's quite exciting it's like

a big kid you know with a big

toy installing the staircase is the most

technically challenging piece of this

puzzle and today it's being worked on by

Anita and a father and son team flown in

all the way from

France the lighthouse is a complex build

first comes the outer

framework and then the inner staircase

is lowered into position working at

height it must be dropped inside the

outer shell of the lighthouse and then

secured in place this is a jigsaw puzzle

that cannot be completed if there's even

the smallest error in the Manu

manufacturer of the pieces the whole

project will have to be put on hold if

anything doesn't

fit basically you're fitting a a rounded

uh member which is the circuit into a

square hole and it's very very tight so

there's not a lot of parameter to play

with tolerances on both sides so

communication is key and we've got

extremely good local

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operators up up up up stop

stop every lifting that you're doing

construction it's challenging because

you have to think about the safety you

know so it's uh it can go very very bad

very

quickly

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let all

right once the staircase and outer

framework is complete next a specially

constructed paneling is installed and

then finally the lighthouse is topped

off with a lookout

platform it's very good to see progress

like this any progress is good progress

especially on a sight this challenging

so I hope that it uh it uh fits the

expectation that they're looking for

after several weeks hard work by Sita

and the team the lighthouse is complete

and will be a stunning Landmark visible

to guests from across the island but

it's not just a landmark this Lighthouse

will be another valuable part of the

guest's experience allowing visitors to

to take a trip to the top first to try

it is general manager Michelle we are on

top of the lighthouse it is so nice I

can't believe it's actually built we've

only seen pictures for so long it's

going to be an amazing Excursion um

guests are going to love it up here the

view is

incredible this was a piece of grass and

sand and debris just a few months ago

and here we have it that everything is

looking phenomenal

also complete is the Breakwater after

the severe issues facing the marina area

were spotted it's been an expensive but

necessary build for Chris Ellis and his

team at the moment I'm looking at um the

just about complete Northern Breakwater

which will protect the marina the new

Breakwater has calmed the choppy Waters

and turned the marina into a quiet

luxury dock it's was the right decision

and it's created a beautiful space that

we can run operations from and provide

Safe Haven to um to any craft in the

area in case of storms it's a great

decision with Chris signing off the

construction of the lighthouse and the

Breakwater things are back on schedule

but while MSC cruises promised the

island would be open and delivered on

time they also made a commitment to the

environment company chairman Pier

Francesco Vago pledge to protect the

ocean and provide a flourishing habitat

for Native species and it'll be up to

General Manager Michelle McGregor to

keep tabs on their progress success

rests on whether they'll be awarded a

Marine reserve status from the Bahamian

government and Michelle has some good

news we've been waiting till the last

minute and we finally got it Mr Vago was

really really Keen about you know

keeping the authenticity of the Bahamas

keeping the ocean is pure and very

environmentally

friendly everything that we we did

revolved around the environment

everything was thought of to make sure

that we could protect the

oceans we've been pushing this for about

5 years now so it's really exciting to

make it happen with positive signs on

land and at Sea this island is proving

to be a new home for all sorts of

important life

so you see the marine life that's coming

back I'm just actually surprised on how

quickly it's coming back and how

beautiful the ocean is already looking

and we're not even opening day yet as

that day nears Michelle's Focus will now

switch to the finishing touches but

she'll do so knowing the island has

already delivered its environmental

pledge and that for years to come it'll

be monitored and managed to ensure it

continues to thrive

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