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Imagine it was you. A 60-foot fall off a seaside cliff. Body broken on the rocks below. Unable to move, face to the sky. Too far from the bathers to call for help. Surviving through that first cold night. Nothing but the sound of the wind and waves. Then the high tide surging around you. Every lash of the water bringing a fresh pain to broken arms and legs, and salt in the wounds. Cries heard only by the patient corbeaux. Seeing a new day come, bringing with it a new hope of rescue. But bringing too, the sun, burning and blistering. But no rescue coming. Living through another night, and another tide. So much water, but not a drop to drink. Every receding tide carrying away a bit of your will to live. Knowing that down the beach are happy people with food and drink and music. And a life to go home to. Wondering when death will come. Willing it to happen, to end the misery. But body living on, every cell working to survive. Then being found, three days later. Your discovery sparking a heroic effort by beachgoers, a stretcher made of branches. Helping hands taking you to hospital. Surviving all of that... to die a day later, in a hospital bed. This is what quite possibly happened to Peter Carabai back in April 1999. The truth of how he ended up on the rocks near Quinam Beach on Trinidad’s south coast may never be known. Police first said it was a case of death by misadventure. But the people living in the villages near the beach are sure it was murder. Peter’s family are also convinced he was left on the rocks to die by people he angered. But three men who many believed knew the truth behind Peter’s death are all gone.Two died. One has vanished. To read more about Peter’s story, check the link in our bio or stories #trinidadandtobago #trinidadandtobago🇹🇹 #trinidad #trini #trinidadnews #trinidadexpress #expressnews #expressnewspaper #express #news #current #photography #photooftheday #instagram #photo #picoftheday #thehisttoryproject #nature #art #photographer #travel #naturephotography #history #trinidadphotography #newsphotography #photojournalist

January 06, 2022