Juan Dolio - South Beach of the Caribbean !!! - Page 162

frank recktenwald · #**1611** 07-06-2009, 01:06 PM

Yesterday evening a young couple decided to enjoy some time in the sea, they were pulled away by a current and the young woman was lucky to be able to hang on to a rock, her partner vanished in the dark.
There´s a lot of military on the beach now since the victims father is a general and they´re still looking for the body.

cejay · #**1612** 07-06-2009, 04:10 PM

Hello Frank, you don't know the victims last name or family name do you? Just wondering as my family in D.R. is friends with lots of Generals there. Just curious who it is?

frank recktenwald · #**1613** 07-06-2009, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by cejay

Hello Frank, you don't know the victims last name or family name do you? Just wondering as my family in D.R. is friends with lots of Generals there. Just curious who it is?

Sorry don´t have any information on that, it should be in the papers though by the latest tomorrow. There was some press present.

cejay · #**1614** 07-06-2009, 06:11 PM

ok, no problem as I'm sure it will be posted tomorrow. My friend was shot and killed around 4 weeks ago "his father is a senator" and I read about it in DR1 news. Where did this happend? I go swimming there alot at Boca Marina resutaurant and at our family house in Guayacanes but the water doesn't seem strong there to get washed out to sea. There is a tropical storm around Dominican right, maybe that had something to do with this.

Matilda · #**1615** 07-06-2009, 06:21 PM

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

cejay · #**1616** 07-06-2009, 06:55 PM

Wow, Maltida I didn't know that. I have been to Sun Village only once and it was kind rough there but now I'm not going back because it sounds scary at the moment so I'll stay in Guayancanes or Boca Marina at least to eat and drink if now swimming. I went to the another place also called "Hemmingway" which is beautiful and even has a restaurant in the water but it was very tranquil and waste deep also with no current. Hemmingway are apartments but not even sure where I was because my wife's brother-n-law took us there. It think it was in Juan Dolio also but maybe Guayacanes also as it was near. My mother-N-Law works for the government in the Natvia, I think that is what that dept. is called "Housing and construction Dev." I will ask her if she knows someone in the tourist dept. to bring this issue of drownings up to them, as unfortunatly it will probably take a tourist drowning before something is done about this problem but if that was a General's son that drowned today, that might open some eyes!

tht · #**1617** 07-06-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Matilda

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...

..There is no tropical storm here at all, but there is always very strong current there.

Do the engineers look at the hydrodynamics, turbulence etc. and take that into account when they do these changes to the coastline? There's always a reason why there's no beach or reef there in the first place. Just changing the coast line can seriously affect the current and that again can create turbulence.

Matilda · #**1618** 07-06-2009, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by tht

Do the engineers look at the hydrodynamics, turbulence etc. and take that into account when they do these changes to the coastline? There's always a reason why there's no beach or reef there in the first place. Just changing the coast line can seriously affect the current and that again can create turbulence.

I doubt they looked at anything. And you are right, it was the changing of the coastline which caused the problems.