Fishermen in Barbados grapple with damage to boats from Hurricane Beryl

Fishermen in Barbados on Wednesday were assessing the damage caused to their vessels after Hurricane Beryl swept through the southeast Caribbean.
According to the fishermen, all the boats at the Bridgetown marina suffered some degree of damage, while a few entirely sank under big waves that washed over the docks.
Barbados was caught in the tail end of Hurricane Beryl, which passed by the island on Monday as a category 4 storm with winds of at least 130 mph (209 kilometers per hour), enough to cause significant damage.
Dave Hinds, of the Hinds transport service, said that more than 26 boats were underwater and explained that rescue works would be slow.
Footage showed the water in the marina littered with the debris of smashed boats.
Fishermen were eager to resume their activities.
Fishing in Barbados is a big attraction for tourists who rent boats, but it is also an industry that provides income and employment for thousands of people on the island.
Hurricane Beryl’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper of a storm demonstrated the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now and the kind of season ahead, experts said.
Beryl smashed multiple records even before its major hurricane-level winds approached land.
The powerful storm is acting more like monsters that form in the peak of hurricane season thanks mostly to water temperatures as hot or hotter than the region normally gets in September, five hurricane experts told