Two Rock Passage into Hamilton and St. George’s Town Cut will have to be widened and dredged in the near future to accommodate modern mega-cruise ships, a coastal engineer has concluded.
And environmental impact studies will have to be done to determine the impact it would have on not only coral reefs, but also currents. Philip Smith, co-director of Smith Warner International Ltd, the largest Caribbean firm specialising in Coastal Engineering, Coastal Zone Management and Oceanography, was commissioned by Government in 2003 to do a comprehensive survey of Bermuda’s coastline.
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The initiative was announced earlier this year by Government to overhaul all of Bermuda’s ports — St. George’s, Marginal Wharf, St. David’s, Hamilton Harbour and at Ireland Island North. For this purpose, a high-tech computerised maritime database, including simulation software, is being used to determine possible alterations, before actually making them.