On Jan­u­ary 30, just days af­ter it reached T&T and while on sea tri­als, the ves­sel brought to ser­vice the in­ter-is­land seabridge—Blue Wave Har­mo­ny—was dam­aged dur­ing berthing ma­noeu­vres in To­ba­go.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports ob­tained by Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk, the ves­sel was flagged in 2024 for safe­ty con­cerns.

With the State hav­ing to pay US$25,500 a day, Guardian Me­dia takes a look at what hap­pened at the Port of Scar­bor­ough dur­ing berthing that dam­aged the ship’s hull, and what the ves­sel’s doc­u­ment­ed his­to­ry showed about safe­ty over­sight be­fore it ever ar­rived in T&T on Jan­u­ary 22.