Fish­er­men, sailors and beach-go­ers will need to ex­er­cise ex­treme cau­tion over the next five days as a Yel­low Lev­el Haz­ardous Seas Alert will be in ef­fect.

The Alert cov­ers north­ern and north-east­ern ex­posed coastal ar­eas of Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing north-fac­ing coastal ar­eas of the Gulf of Paria, to a less­er ex­tent.

It goes in­to ef­fect at 5:00am on Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 4, 2025), and will re­main ac­tive un­til 9:00am next Wednes­day (Oc­to­ber 8, 2025).

Ac­cord­ing to an ad­vi­so­ry from the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice, high-en­er­gy, long pe­ri­od, north/north-east­er­ly swells in com­bi­na­tion with spring tides are ex­pect­ed to ag­i­tate seas over the pe­ri­od with ex­ac­er­bat­ed con­di­tions at high tides.

Fore­cast­ers say in ad­di­tion, ex­pect larg­er than nor­mal break­ers with large, bat­ter­ing waves in the surf zone.

“Near-shore ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ing fish­ing, swim­ming and boat moor­ings can be dis­rupt­ed,” the ad­vi­so­ry warns.

Oth­er im­pacts may in­clude in­tru­sion of salt wa­ter and dis­place­ment of sand, fur­ther than the av­er­age reach point.

Fore­cast­ers note there will be “slight im­prove­ment” on Mon­day morn­ing, with con­di­tions re­turn­ing to more ag­i­ta­tion af­ter noon.

The Met Ser­vice is strong­ly en­cour­ag­ing all ma­rine in­ter­ests to care­ful­ly mon­i­tor nearshore/coastal sea con­di­tions; ex­er­cise ex­treme cau­tion along iden­ti­fied ar­eas; re­strict nearshore ma­rine ac­tiv­i­ties; and se­cure coastal prop­er­ty.

Ma­rine in­ter­ests can con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor up­dates at www.metof­fice.gov.tt, and ac­cess more in­for­ma­tion and in­struc­tions from www.odpm.gov.tt.