Iberostar, Montego Bay Jamaica


The beach area of this new 1400 room hotel development was initially a shallow area with a silty seabed substrate that was unusable for recreational purposes. Over a period of 9 months, COMAR transformed the swimming area by dredging the soft silty material and replacing it with course white sand. The area was also sheltered against high wave activity with three reef-like submerged breakwater structures, built some 30m offshore. A portion of the excavated material was washed and drained to extract the courser sand which was reused to nourish the swimming area.