The Most Dangerous Side of Every Caribbean Island
Adventure Chuckles
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Every Caribbean island has one place you should not stand. On most of them it's a volcano. On one it's a lake you can walk across. On another it's a trench in the sea floor deeper than any mountain is tall. This is the most dangerous place on every island in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean sits on two different plate boundaries, and that single fact explains almost everything about the region. The eastern arc — Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, St Kitts, Saba, St Eustatius — is a volcanic chain where one plate is sliding under another right now. The western islands — Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico — sit on a different boundary, which is why their danger looks nothing like the east's.
In this video: Plymouth, Montserrat, the only capital city in the world abandoned and still officially the capital. Mount Pelée in 1902 and the prisoner who survived it. The 2021 La Soufrière eruption on St Vincent. Kick 'em Jenny, the live submarine volcano north of Grenada. Dominica's Boiling Lake and why its hazard level changes with the water level. St Lucia's drive-in volcano. Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. The Puerto Rico Trench and the Milwaukee Deep. The Cayman Trough. The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault under Port-au-Prince. Jamaica's Cockpit Country. Lake Enriquillo rising into farmland. Cuba's Zapata Swamp. Trinidad's Pitch Lake. And why Barbados, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao have none of it.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — The Most Dangerous Places in the Caribbean
01:05 — Why Caribbean Islands Are So Dangerous
02:10 — Montserrat: The Capital Buried by a Volcano
03:15 — Martinique: Mount Pelée and the Prisoner Who Survived
04:20 — St Vincent: La Soufrière Eruption
05:05 — Kick 'em Jenny: The Volcano Under the Sea
06:00 — Dominica: The Boiling Lake
07:05 — St Lucia: The Drive-In Volcano
07:50 — St Kitts, Saba & St Eustatius
09:00 — The Caribbean's Danger Beneath the Water
09:40 — Bahamas: Dean's Blue Hole
10:35 — Puerto Rico Trench: The Deepest Point in the Atlantic
11:30 — The Cayman Trough
12:15 — Haiti: The Fault Beneath Port-au-Prince
13:10 — Jamaica: Cockpit Country
14:05 — Dominican Republic: Lake Enriquillo
14:55 — Cuba: Zapata Swamp
15:45 — Trinidad: Pitch Lake
16:40 — Barbados, Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao
17:35 — Why Some Caribbean Islands Have No Volcanoes
18:30 — The Real Reason the Caribbean Is Dangerous
19:20 — Where Is the Most Dangerous Place on Your Island?
Tell me in the comments — if you're from one of these islands, where's the real dangerous place on yours?
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No winter in Caribbean. No need for coats or cardigans.
Two seasons - rainy and dry seasons.
However, Caribbean islands experience hurricane season. We do not experience hurricanes annually
The Most Dangerous Side of Every Caribbean Island
Adventure Chuckles
13,754 views
Every Caribbean island has one place you should not stand. On most of them it's a volcano. On one it's a lake you can walk across. On another it's a trench in the sea floor deeper than any mountain is tall. This is the most dangerous place on every island in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean sits on two different plate boundaries, and that single fact explains almost everything about the region. The eastern arc — Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Montserrat, St Kitts, Saba, St Eustatius — is a volcanic chain where one plate is sliding under another right now. The western islands — Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico — sit on a different boundary, which is why their danger looks nothing like the east's.
In this video: Plymouth, Montserrat, the only capital city in the world abandoned and still officially the capital. Mount Pelée in 1902 and the prisoner who survived it. The 2021 La Soufrière eruption on St Vincent. Kick 'em Jenny, the live submarine volcano north of Grenada. Dominica's Boiling Lake and why its hazard level changes with the water level. St Lucia's drive-in volcano. Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas. The Puerto Rico Trench and the Milwaukee Deep. The Cayman Trough. The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault under Port-au-Prince. Jamaica's Cockpit Country. Lake Enriquillo rising into farmland. Cuba's Zapata Swamp. Trinidad's Pitch Lake. And why Barbados, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao have none of it.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — The Most Dangerous Places in the Caribbean
01:05 — Why Caribbean Islands Are So Dangerous
02:10 — Montserrat: The Capital Buried by a Volcano
03:15 — Martinique: Mount Pelée and the Prisoner Who Survived
04:20 — St Vincent: La Soufrière Eruption
05:05 — Kick 'em Jenny: The Volcano Under the Sea
06:00 — Dominica: The Boiling Lake
07:05 — St Lucia: The Drive-In Volcano
07:50 — St Kitts, Saba & St Eustatius
09:00 — The Caribbean's Danger Beneath the Water
09:40 — Bahamas: Dean's Blue Hole
10:35 — Puerto Rico Trench: The Deepest Point in the Atlantic
11:30 — The Cayman Trough
12:15 — Haiti: The Fault Beneath Port-au-Prince
13:10 — Jamaica: Cockpit Country
14:05 — Dominican Republic: Lake Enriquillo
14:55 — Cuba: Zapata Swamp
15:45 — Trinidad: Pitch Lake
16:40 — Barbados, Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao
17:35 — Why Some Caribbean Islands Have No Volcanoes
18:30 — The Real Reason the Caribbean Is Dangerous
19:20 — Where Is the Most Dangerous Place on Your Island?
Tell me in the comments — if you're from one of these islands, where's the real dangerous place on yours?