Since they altered the coast line in Villas del Mar, building artifical reefs etc, there have been around 15 drownings. There is now a very strong current in front of what will be Sun Village, which at the moment is a public beach. Hence the locals use it. There is no tropical storm here at all, but there is always very strong current there. Usually it is the construction workers who drown, and nothing is reported. I have written before to the new Tourism department for Juan Dolio and no reply. I have also written to the Environment Ministry and no reply. Maybe when the hotel eventually opens and tourists start drowning they will do something.
I suggest they look for the body in the underground caves to the East of Albatros resort. When I was a dive instructor that is where we used to fish the bodies out.
matilda
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