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a deserted desolate Island alone in the

Atlantic lashed by storms scorched by

the sun abandoned littered with

Industrial Waste previous tenants

weren't exactly kind to the environment

this is unbelievable it just medals

metal all over a place but this island

has been thrown a Lifeline a cruise ship

company plans to tr transform it into a

luxury destination like no other and

they've got just 3 years to pull it off

this island needs to be sculpted shaped

and wired for the 21st century it needs

buildings restaurants and shops an

ecosystem needs to be restored and

thousands of trees and shrubs planted

coral reefs rescued an authentic Island

Resort designed and built for expectant

guests it's a project more ambitious

than anything na attempted before and

one laced with challenges the Project's

in big trouble it gets harder Every Day

Disaster it's a gigantic task every day

we meet challenges probably the toughest

project that I've ever had to do it's

really frustrated a Race Against Time

when this is all done I'll be the

happiest man on this island guests have

already bought tickets holidays are

already booked this is something that

has never been done before

but will the team tasked with building

Paradise pull it

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off MSC cruises one of the biggest

cruise ship companies in the world for

17 years this family run company has

operated some of the largest and most

luxurious liners on the planet

led by its chairman Pier Francesco Vago

this company is prepared to spend

Millions to get an edge over the

competition to get that edge they want

to provide experiences that no other

Cruise Company can so in 2012 they

decided they would buy a private island

and turn it into a luxury destination

for their

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guests but this beautiful island didn't

exist so architect Lou ajamil was given

the task of finding a blank canvas on

which to build it to find an island

where you can bring a cruise ship of the

caliber and and size that MSC has has to

have certain basic features such as you

have to be near deep water that the ship

can get close to the island and it's got

to be in proximity to

routes what they basically asked for is

how to create Paradise the search was on

and after 3 years Lewis and MSC cruises

found what they were looking for Ocean

Key at just 95 Acres Ocean Key sits in

the island chain of the Bahamas a tiny

Speck of land in the Atlantic once home

to a sand mine but now an abandoned mess

we found an Island full of junk from the

old mining operation that existed and

that mining operation had been going on

for 40 50 years the Island's new owners

saw ocean Key's Rich potential

but will they manage to transform this

piece of Forgotten industrial land into

their vision of paradise on Earth the

man risking his professional reputation

and millions of dollars is company

chairman Pier Francesco Vago I went

personally to see if there was a

possibility to develop a destination

then I fell in

love my dream was not only to transform

an island or to to create a this ination

but was to actually have an impact that

was environmentally correct I imagine

one day a ship that could actually go

alongside uh this island and to actually

make the island the extension of the

ship the plans for the island boast

beaches lagoons and palm trees a Haven

for wildlife and an enriched Marine

habitat but they require an ecosystem to

be restored and shops restaurants and a

towering Lighthouse to be built

but this is a project that faces

adversity a construction site on an

isolated disconnected Island facing

rough seas and dramatic weather an

island plagued by waste and a project

that cannot afford to run over schedule

we already sold tickets to passengers

that where we promis them to actually be

the first one to go to aan k it's a big

challenge it's reputational it's

contractual it's a promise that we want

to keep it to our

passenger those tickets are hot property

a holiday of a lifetime and the

passengers are expecting

Perfection with less than 3 years to

build this Paradise Island Ocean Key

must be ready on

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time the first few months promise to be

some of the most challenging as tons of

debris is cleared the coastline secured

Moorings are conr ConEd and two huge

lagoons carved into the island

Center Mr Vago has set aside an eye

watering $200 million to build his slice

of Paradise in charge of making his

vision a reality and keeping it on

budget is project manager Chris

Ellis Mr Bargo is a hard man to please

but there again

uh he's got a right to

be you don't get to be in that kind of

position without being a hard man to

please without striving for

Perfection I'm with them all the

way as work to clear the island begins

Chris has begun to share Mr vag's

detailed

Vision the wedding Spa is on the rock

rment over

there we've got our conservation bit

there and then we got a tiki bar a

restroom and then the yach club behind

us which will be where the um the

premier guests get to enjoy life in

Chris's line of work you need to have a

good

imagination this is where people will

renew their

vows with the sun setting over here it

look

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beautiful working alongside Chris is

Michelle McGregor so obviously this is

going to be the Lagoon she'll be the

general manager once the island opens

but there's plenty of decisions to be

made before then where's the ocean going

to

start um

probably about 20t that way building an

island almost from scratch means that

even the ocean can be moved to suit and

everything is being designed with the

first guests in mind if I'm a guest and

I paid for a cabana do I want a whole

bunch of of people in front of my cavana

or or do I want to be the closest to the

beach and and then people will go sit

behind me will I do we do one forward

one

back we could do actually that might be

nice right yeah but before anything can

be built Chris Michelle and the team

have to clear the island for decades

this island has been producing and

exporting its most valuable natural

asset sand and all that mining for soft

white sand has meant tons and tons of

heavy machinery that's now been left

behind 7500 tons in fact and now every

last bit of broken Twisted Metal needs

to be removed there so much metal out

there

man even with the metal detector it's so

much metal you get Buzz all

around Metals metal all over the place

at first you picking up small pieces

then you look you got half of a building

you got a boat you got a plane you got a

tractor what else is under the ground

you know and we got to get all out so I

really I really wondering if I ever can

see my family

again from a engineering perspective it

it's it's like an unlucky dip rather

than a lucky dip because you you

literally don't know what you're going

to come up against oh big tractor TI

old old rusted cans

rebar whole lot this is exactly a a

reminder of how badly the island was

treated by its previous

owners this team of Bahamian workers

can't stop the cleanup until every bit

of metal is removed and the construction

work on the island can't begin until

they

finished it took them 30 years to put it

in but it given us three to four mons

maybe 6 months to take it out we didn't

know what we up again and every day the

tie changes and stuff just keep popping

up we can't leave one bit of this stuff

behind so we need to to clean up the

whole of the island um so it's it's a

not a not a danger to our guests cuz we

don't want anyone stuffing there and

Toes but also so they can enjoy it as

much as we do so everything has to go

it's gone going to be a long hard slog

to get this island ready and with the

clock already counting down Chris and

his team face a race to catch

up when cruise ship company MSC decided

to transform a deserted island they knew

they would have a tough job on their

hands Ocean Key promises to be an

eco-friendly Oasis for over 5,000

expectant guests with pristine beaches

tranquil lagoons and a Back to Nature

feel built alongside Cutting Edge

infrastructure but before any of this

work can begin to build this island and

with the countdown to opening day

already on the way cleanup staff have to

rid the island of thousands of tons of

discarded metal all Ironwood in that

area goes on the

truck operations manager Michelle

McGregor wants her bosses to see the

problem for

themselves now Giani Anor the chief

executive officer for MSC is's on his

way from Geneva to see just how costly

removing this debris might be and I

think that Mr honor will really get a

feel for how much was left

behind Hi how are

you this is debris that's what been

found in the Water by the

way this is unbelievable unbeli

unbelievable so all all of this material

here is just the debris clean up company

that we hired for the surrounding in the

ocean and they've only been here for a

week a tractor it's not

normal all of this stuff was either

buried somewhere or in the

ocean I was shocked to see all these

debris we were not expecting to find so

much all of this needs to be taken off

of the island these are delays these are

also millions of dollars yeah millions

of dollarars and delay and delays yes

this is a big part of the Del we're

gonna be on time

any

exactly this keeps going uh going on and

going on is an expensive operation but

it's necessary

shocking what is this even this is a

tank it's like a this is a tank yeah

we'll be ready first of all because you

must be optimistic and secondly uh

because uh we have already sold the

cruises with oan Cas so we must be

ready but on Ocean Key it's not just the

metal on land that's holding things

up offshore there's a sea full of

surprises waiting to be

found the mining operation that existed

here also involved extracting sand from

beneath the seabed and now with every

tide that washes in more metal fragments

large and small are being discovered

today the team cleaning up the water

have found a large piece of metal thrust

deep into the seabed that they're

struggling to shift the piece that we

was trying to get it's a tricky piece

it's like this we don't know how far it

runs so when we get it out I'm going to

celebrate because it's

hard so we ready to

go first the team need need to size up

the piece of metal and then deploy some

specialist flotation equipment which can

take the strain of these giant

obstacles these airtight bags are

attached to metal debris and then

inflated to raise the heavy items at a

controlled pace so they can be dragged

to the shore each liter of air inside

the bag will lift a weight of around 1

kg so the team have to perform some

Swift on the spot calculations they

think this could be a 100t long pipe

left behind by the old mining operation

on the island we really can't tell how

heavy or how big the stuff is until we

actually start to get it

moved but the problem they have is that

it's buried so deep in the seabed they

can't tell its shape weight or the

number of lift bags they need to attach

too try to stress the bag them old bars

you could get them we really really and

truly don't know how how big it is but

we know it's pipes everybody it's it's

huge it's very huge

pipes the divers blow air to move the

sand around the pipe to reveal its

dimensions and loosen its grip in the

seab

bid this is dangerous work with the

constant risk of equipment failing due

to the forces at play or sharp pieces of

metal being ripped from the buried item

and rocketing to the surface they need

to hurry up dog we had to go pick up

strong in another 20 20 30 minutes but

with time against them the pipe is

refusing to budge I w't see this come

home it off the ground huh it off the

ground yeah we get it up with that

ey time is really not on our side right

now time and we uh little bit of uh

misjudgment on the pipe itself we going

to get it I got you we going to get it

It's Tricky I'm not giving up on tell

get it it got to come out so either it

come out willingly or we're going to

force it

out reinforcements are called for with

the pipe now exposed from the seabed the

team can adjust their

technique attaching a cable to drag it

out

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yeah and we got it after an entire day

struggling with the buried pipe the team

finally

succeed good job today yeah

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in 2015 the island of ocean key in the

Bahamas was selected to be given a

paradise makeover and while one team

spent months clearing the island of

debris and waste accumulated over the

last 50 years another team of American

Engineers are tasked with Landscaping

the island to the exact specifications

of the architect's plans it's a job that

involves shifting thousands of tons of

sand and rock around the Island every

centimeter of this tropical work in

progress has been created according to a

master

plan this is Barry Barnes surveyor

extraordinaire everything you see here

every Hill every every dip every rise

every every Contour here is physically

being built in the field according to

this model right here Berry's PL end are

accurate to within half an inch meaning

there's little room for error on the

ground we've just got to make sure it's

within that half inch it's not it just

it's more of a pride thing let's say

that the secret to being so accurate is

some amazing new equipment navigated by

satellites to move the right bits of

Earth to the right places every square

inch of this island is being built by

GPS as far as Contours and grates that's

it's pretty amazing the fleet of

bulldozers are connected via satellite

to a virtual map of the island and the

map can send instructions directing the

diggers and raising or lowering the

cutting blade to make every bit of the

island inch

perfect I was running that with my hands

free and just letting the machine take

over it's kind of cool it means the team

can work at the high speed this project

requires

we're about 80% done with the island at

this point we've been working on this

island for about a year now uh we're up

to almost 100,000 yards of material

we've moved the rest of the island is

been shaped and ready for buildout but

every rise and fall of the new island

floor has to be checked by perfectionist

Barry but the cut you made right here is

good yeah they got a crater right here

though showing up

so I just wanted to check make sure the

blade was good he's going to make

another couple of passes fill up the

hole and I'll check again it just back

dragged a couple times here smoed out

it's looking good actually on grade yeah

the best of operators can do near as

good as the machine control can do and

he said it was within a/ quar inch so

it's perfect as the bulldozing shapes

the island the team also have to make

sure that the island stays where it is

the Bahamas lies 6 5 miles south of the

United States slap bang in the middle of

an area prone to hurricanes and when

they strike the extreme weather can take

parts of the island with

it to prevent this it's necessary to

stabilize the Island's Coastline

anything close to the edge of the water

would be washed away in almost no time

American project manager Rick Alexander

has been tasked with building a defense

to this erosion and his solution is

25,000 tons of Canadian Rock these rocks

come from a long ways away these rocks

come from Nova Scotia and its Granite so

it's more dense it has has a higher

specific gravity so it takes less Rock

to protect the island from the storms

for the past 5 months Rick has been

overseeing the placement of this rock

known as revetments all around the

island 1200 M of Shoreline must be

stabilized and it must be done quickly

now Rick is on his way to check on the

progress with his revetment

team the biggest thing for me right now

is the Northeast point it's the last

major placement of of revetment rock

and it'll it's going to be finished

today or I'm going to kill

somebody what what do we got going on

what what's happening trying to finish

Titus in today to complete this it's got

to be finished today h I ain't got no

more time get back up on there and make

me proud okay

Bubba when we complete this one the

island will be for the most part as

protected as we can make it and we will

have completed probably close to 125,000

tons of rock placement throughout the

entire

Island this is like the last hurah every

day that goes by I get closer to less to

plan and more to

relax each Rock is heavy but must be

delicately placed in order to create a

sloping Coastal wall it may look random

but every Rock has its place and the end

result is a formidable barrier that will

prevent harsh winds and high seas from

washing the coastline

away one by one the rocks are lifted and

maneuvered into position once each

section is done it has to be checked

nothing on this island can be left to

chance so surveyor Barry is called upon

to make sure everything's up to

scratch I've got to come out here and

check it mathematically to make sure

that the rock line is back it needs to

be where it's at it's up to grade all

right right on top of him right there

that looks

good observation all right let hit the

water

line even though I check one spot is

good you got to move on you got to find

out that every every all of of us

right all right got

it all right that's good and more

information the

better they're proud of the way the rock

is looking partly because of the GPS

it's partly because of the operators and

it's greatly because of Barry me being

sure that we have every Rock right in

the correct place they trust my my my my

math and if I say it's not ready it's

not ready when he finally walks in my

office with the paper he rests it on my

desk and it already gets my stamp of

approval get a little thick right here

everything is pretty well within

tolerance yes I think everybody's going

to love

it if the engineers did their jobs right

Mother Nature is going to have a hard

time the most susceptible area to the

island the most susceptible areas to

being destroyed are all all protected

now and should be here for years to come

with the outline of the island secured

and the canvas of Paradise Island made

ready the building can finally

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begin the plans for Ocean Key are

designed to create a slice of paradise

they include Acres of crisp white

beaches tropical palm trees and the

isolation that visitors will

crave but it wasn't always days like

this for decades this island was a

working mine that employed hundreds of

locals one of those men was Danny raming

he worked on Ocean key for 35 years and

knows it better than perhaps anyone else

when I came here September of the second

1980 they had 105 employees and rle

every time uh another company take over

just keep breaking it down Dany was

employed by a number of mining companies

Digging Up Sand and sending it to

man-made beaches around the world it

changed a lot but I still say that they

should keep it going as a gold we call

it white

gold white gold but the demand for white

gold diminished and the island was

abandoned until MSC came along with

plans for

transformation now Dany is part of the

local Workforce on the island and he

hopes he can be part of its future

too when it

finished they will um keep some of

us employ cuz we know like a lot of

history why we give for 36 years I'd

like to Care on I would say another 36

to another 15 years or so that'd be nice

for now Dany is part of the team

involved in transforming the island and

his current job is to build a crucial

piece of infrastructure called the moing

dolphin the 5,000 passengers who arrive

on the island will be transported by

msc's Fleet of enormous cruise ships

these 20 story 300 M long floating

cities need a supersized parking space a

deep waterer Channel dug decades ago

means the south coast is the best place

to dog but the existing land isn't long

enough for the ships to dock alongside

so two additional Moorings are being

built to extend the space these Moorings

are essential if this island will be

able to welcome cruise ships project

manager for this bit of the build is

Rick

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Alexander this is a very important

structure they're going to hold what's

What's called the mor lines

with the seed being like this I have

been scared to death because I basically

got a month to get this structure in and

if we don't get it in in a month I'm in

big trouble the Project's in big trouble

they might even run me off the moing is

essentially a concrete slab placed on

top of a series of pylons and drilled

down into the seabed but the challenge

is securing the slab to the pylons each

seal and join needs to to be cemented

into place and all this on a makeshift

building site in the middle of a

turbulent

ocean you see the guys in the bottom

they mix up a a grout mix a non-shrink

grout mix and they go inside and they

sealed the hole around each pile and

then they seal the seam between each

slab the man tasked with applying the

grout mix under the water is John

Watson he's the best R in this business

and if you take a look it looks like he

may be down there trying to deliver a

baby and all I can say is I hope he

delivers a baby for me tonight but with

harsh weather battering the moing John

needs to apply more grout than usual and

hope it sticks if it's not sealed all

the way then there's going to be some

motion and the motion may break what

he's got and we could be back today

where we were yesterday and we might not

ever get this thing

this is real construction this is like

that Cy building stuff the real man the

team spend several hours working under

the water line fixing the concrete slabs

to the

pylons all they can do now is hope and

pray that the grout sets with everything

in

place but when the working day is done

the crew building Ocean Key don't get to

go home that's because the building site

is their

home around 300 workers are currently on

the island in temporary structures that

had to be built before anything else

could happen they all need to be fed and

have some home

comforts you know it's ready the best

keeping up staff morale is as important

as having topof the range

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tools but after A Hard Day's Work it's

usually not long before the camp is fast

asleep readying themselves for another

busy day to

come for weeks a team of builders on the

island of Ocean Key have been hard at

work constructing a new concrete moing

in the ocean it needs to be in place to

allow supersized cruise ships to pull

alongside and let their 5,000 passengers

disembark after a tough day of cementing

the platform in place they need to see

if it's held firm or if the turbulent

ocean has caused any

damage and the initial signs aren't good

the weather is is kind of not helping

out on this corner over here right now

there was a lot of areas that got

damaged that has broken loose so we

tried to repair with hydraulic cement

but it didn't work the pipe's still

moving that kind of make it hard for

know try to keep the seal slab and those

p ps locked

together we work long hours trying to

get it sealed

actually we no we didn't do anything on

it no for me is it's just hard all of

the effort that Jon and his team have

put in to secure the moing has been in

vain the rough weather has moved the

slab and gaps around the pylons still

need to be

filled definitely Rick's not going to be

happy uh is is is really frustrated

go ahead for

John what's

up

well so far we didn't we didn't manage

to get it seal okay uh everything we did

yesterday just broke loose just want to

get Rick over here I guess I want to

talk to Rick about it while work on the

new moing is on hold other construction

work is in full swing

one of the requirements for a Paradise

Island is enough crisp white sand to

find isolation but with 5,000 visitors

all arriving at once MSC cruises felt

there wasn't enough Beach space to give

everyone what they wanted so the plans

for Ocean Key include building two new

huge lagoons increasing the beach front

to 3.5 km you can actually get an

appreciation of how big that Lagoon's

going to be look at the size of that

that's going to be one of the biggest

attractions on the island and it's going

to be really calm inside as well because

it's a sheltered

Lagoon it's still going to be quite

spectacular but with just months to go

until the island opens the Lagoon is

still to be built the team on the island

need to dredge up half a million tons of

sand and move it to fill a hole in the

seabed left by the years of sand

mining now the dredgings it's the most

risky operation left that's it but again

500,000 tons from there into there

that's

it the team will use a giant industrial

underwater Hoover to slice up the sand

and silt and drop it away from the

island to fill the

hole you can see all the scrap in there

that's that's really the only thing that

would that will delay the dredging so

you get you get one of those pieces of

metal up your suction

pipe and uh it won't be nice but before

the operation can even begin the team

find out that dredging this Lagoon is

going to be tougher than they thought

preparation work has uncovered a large

metal object in the center of the

proposed Lagoon we're still finding

surprises when we dig anywhere it's a

BGE if we don't know exactly ly how big

it is or how far down it is but it

should be

between 30 ft wide and

maybe 50 ft long buried deep beneath the

surface this giant barge is a huge

problem for ham and his team it's heavy

stuck and potentially full of fuel it

could have been here for more than 30

years right in the middle of the area

they now need to dig out

just trying to figure out the best way

to really get it up to get it out of

here R out damaging anything that is

underneath

it but it's not just the barge that's

causing a problem chemicals and fuel

inside it mean the whole area is at risk

of contamination really really really

really tough job here everybody here has

a time limit a time period to get in and

to get out and to face a challenge like

this it's its

pressure it's going to take me at least

a week just to forget all

out embarking on a three-year project to

build a Paradise Island MSC cruises knew

they'd face a Race Against Time but

rough seas and a mountain of discarded

junk have stretched that scheduled to

the Limit one of the construction

projects is a new moing but the team

building it have found all their work

undone by bad weather now project

manager Rick is assessing the damage and

deciding if the moing can be finished

these are the one that got more more

damage over there there one or two of

them couple spots but this one over here

this one got destroyed completely the

pipe is moving so

much whatever growl you put in there you

just it just keeps crushing

it you got one hole over here about a

quarter to side of that one that's a

huge

hole it's a blow Rick needs this Ming to

be

completed we don't get this done now and

when the time comes this won't get done

until next summer so he radios head

office you agree and urges them to have

one more

attempt go ahead I don't think this is

as bad as what John might be thinking

but I think if we get this 6in pump down

here we get the water down and see

exactly what we got although the weather

has damaged the work Rick feels there is

some light at the end of the tunnel and

he's convinced JN to have another go I

really felt like we were going to have

to abandon this until the calm weather

came and right now calm weather is

touching go and every day that goes by

calm weather is less likely as we get in

the

winter it came win now we'll beat it one

way or the other

I think you did good John other one

thing you'd be my goddamn hero if you

get this sealed

up all right unhook and put the fourways

back on yeah put the fourways back let's

get that 6in pump over here we'll hold

them in place and then see what we got

okay yes sir Mother Nature is going to

do what she wants and you have to work

real hard if you don't want her to have

her

way so once again John gets to work

a water pump is lifted onto the platform

and the holes are finally exposed oh we

got a leak in there big leak over

there so he he didn't catch that leak

over

there K we got this hole over here okay

and it's big we're going to check each

one of them we're going to go for the

big hole try to plug that with the

hydraulic cement you already mix give me

more wedges okay

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we control all the big leaks we still

have some small leaks and then I'm going

to do one more gring and hopefully that

that should take care of it I like it

and then we should have a 100% seal I

like

it finally after a two-day battle with

the elements it looks like JN and his

team are winning the

war good thing about something like this

is when you cure it you got that much

more to feel good about

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I'm beginning to smell the sweet smell

of success before the team can celebrate

they still need to check the whole moing

is watertight and secure and KN is

drawing in we've been working long hours

but uh it's the only way we probably be

able to get this done if I work these

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hours I'm pleased with the result it's a

long day but I think it was worth it

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but while the moing can now be completed

there are other problems which risk

delaying the entire island opening the

new Lagoon which needs to be dug out of

the island can't be built until a large

metal barge is carefully removed and

with just 6 months before the island is

set to open company chairman Pierre

Francesco Vargo the man funding the

entire operation

is on Ocean Key to get an

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update when is this going to

decontamination work going to be over um

well Chris has just finished cleaning

this up so we'll get the guys on it next

week we we'll start to clean it up takes

about 6

weeks is a job that has got to be done

but obviously the concern about time the

more that we behind the schedule the

more complex uh the acceleration we have

to be so I be

concerned this will take 3 to four weeks

to finish off every time you guys tell

me this and I come back and nothing

changed four

weeks you told me the same about the

cental lagon we haven't even started

with so many delays every possible

solution is on the table do we really

need a lagon do we really need the

Lagoon don't even start

okay wait without those lagoons dredged

we just have an island with with

structures on it and we we can't give

the guests their experience that they'd

expect so the dredging needs to be

finished but if the Lagoon is to be

built it needs to be perfect and it

needs to be on time really there is a

lot of work so we cannot have a delay we

cannot have a delay so the pressure is

on time is kicking and a lot of work to

do to prevent delays Mr Vago agrees to

pump pump in additional money to speed

up the pumping out of all that

sand an extra team arrives and they work

from morning till night moving the sand

and clearing the barge from the

Lagoon this is the B real

65% of it out already so I think it's

fair to say that nothing is running

ahead of schedule at the moment most

things are either on schedule or behind

schedule at last as the carcass is

removed the long awaited dredging can

begin thousands of tons of sand are

lifted out of the new Lagoon all of the

removed sand and silt is pumped into the

ocean the team have erected underwater

curtains to stop the sand drifting out

to sea it'll keep the water clean and

ensure the marine life is protected with

every inch of sand removed slowly but

surely the lagoons start to take shape

one further complication is clearly

visible as the Lagoon forms the water is

green full of algae and pollution from

the years of dumped waste it's a long

way from the luxurious experience

promised to guests so the Lagoon is

undergoing its own deep clean we've got

some filtration units on site we're also

sparing which is basically blowing air

through the um through the water which

releases the volatile um Organics the

filtration takes up to a month it's the

latest and a long line of costly delays

that are putting this entire build in in

Jeopardy shall we say we've exceeded

expectations and we're we're well over

budget at the moment everything just

costs a little bit more when you're

building something in the middle of

nowhere 4 months on and the dredging of

the Lagoon is complete what was once the

middle of ocean key is now an oasis with

hundreds of meters of new beach and it

gets Chris Ellis's seal of approval

there been a pretty long tedious

torturous process but looking at this

baby

now it's all worth it this has been a

huge effort but this is a fantastic

area you don't appreciate the whole

scale of this Lagoon until it's finished

I this is a huge expanse of water

for some reason in my in my brain I I

pictured it to be a lot

smaller this is a this is a fantastic

space it's almost a little Inland Sea in

its own right it's

great I think this is just what the

guests are looking

for I'm very proud of the team that

managed to make this happen for MSC it's

it's a great achievement to each and

every one of

them with one part part of the island

now resembling Paradise it's time for

the rest to be built

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