Opwall has strict protocols in place ensuring all students are kept safe. Our team on site is trained to deal with assessing any risk along with following our evacuation procedures when necessary.
If you have any concerns after reading the information below, please do email us on expeditions@opwall.com or call on +44 (0)1790 763194. Our offices are open 9am – 5.30pm (BST) – but after this our phone line will revert to a voicemail which contains a number you can call in an emergency.
05 July 2024
All participants have been moved to their planned locations (full details in our previous update). Everyone is being well looked after by our incredible and hard working staff team.
11.40am (BST)
Groups are all OK on our Akumal site. Our site manager has recently checked all the rooms and everyone is safe.
14.04pm (BST)
We’ve heard back from the site manager in Akumal, all is well – we believe the worst of it has passed, but the group are still waiting it out in the main rooms for safety.
The site manager in the terrestrial camps has said it’s been very quiet, and not much rain today – all are OK
All participants are fine and well.
17.26pm (BST)
Our terrestrial site manager is going to be moving the students back to their camps, tomorrow daytime. It did not rain in the night so camps should be unaffected.
Hurricane Beryl is currently showing as a category 3 storm as it passes through the Cayman Islands. Data from the US National Hurricane Centre are predicting that Beryl will reduce to a category 1 storm by the time it reaches the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, where our groups are based. Whilst the storm does go through the Yucatan Peninsula, its projected path currently avoids both our terrestrial and marine camps.
Even though Beryl is expected to have been downgraded to the lowest severity category by the time it reaches the Yucatan Peninsula, we are nevertheless preparing for heavy wind and rain in our camps, and are intending to move some of our groups away from areas where falling trees and flooding may occur, and to place them in temporary accommodation (see details below).
All groups have access to food supplies, water and toilet facilities. Our local staff will be remaining with the groups to cook onsite for them. We are hoping they will not be in the temporary accommodation for more than 24-30 hours but have enough provisions for a minimum 3 days. Operation Wallacea staff will be with them throughout.
Dos Naciones Camp: The students will be starting to move from 7am EST (1pm BST). They will be moved to the Comisaria (Police Station) in the nearby village of Dos Naciones. Whilst they will be based in buildings we are providing tents to provide additional privacy.
Hormiguero: The students will be starting to move from 12pm EST (6pm BST). They will be moved to cabins in the adjacent village of El Hormiguero.
KM19: The students will be starting to move from 2pm EST (8pm BST). They will be moving to the village of Nuevo Conhuas and will be staying in the local school.
Akumal: As our accommodation is a cement built, strong building, already set 2km away from the beach we will not be moving staff or participants.
05 July 2024
All participants have been moved to their planned locations (full details in our previous update). Everyone is being well looked after by our incredible and hard working staff team.
11.40am (BST)
Groups are all OK on our Akumal site. Our site manager has recently checked all the rooms and everyone is safe.
14.04pm (BST)
We’ve heard back from the site manager in Akumal, all is well – we believe the worst of it has passed, but the group are still waiting it out in the main rooms for safety.
The site manager in the terrestrial camps has said it’s been very quiet, and not much rain today – all are OK
All participants are fine and well.
17.26pm (BST)
Our terrestrial site manager is going to be moving the students back to their camps, tomorrow daytime. It did not rain in the night so camps should be unaffected.
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