The last time there was a se­ri­ous mar­itime ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing mi­nors at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) was re­quired to pay sig­nif­i­cant com­pen­sa­tion for fail­ing to warn vis­i­tors of the dan­gers posed by boats and wa­ter­craft.

On June 12, 2007, Yanik Vin­cent Ques­nel and his then girl­friend, Ana Car­oli­na Bar­ry-La­so—both 17 at the time—were se­ri­ous­ly in­jured af­ter be­ing struck by a pirogue’s pro­peller while swim­ming at the pop­u­lar tourist at­trac­tion.

Ques­nel, a res­i­dent of Cas­cade, was left paral­ysed and wheel­chair-bound.