The Ministry of National Security, through its Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation Team, will conduct Exercise Caribe Wave 26 on Thursday, 19 March 2026, commencing at 11:00 a.m. local time.
This exercise, which forms part of the Maritime Seismic Tabletop Exercise 2026, is a simulated tsunami response exercise and is not related to an actual tsunami event.
The annual training is intended to assess Bermuda’s current hazard notification pathways, advisory decision-making processes and inter-agency coordination mechanisms. It will also help identify any procedural, structural or legislative gaps that may affect the development of a cohesive National Disaster Response Framework.
According to the exercise agenda, the Bermuda Weather Service, as Bermuda’s Tsunami Warning Focal Point, will begin the exercise following the release of the initial message.
The Bermuda Weather Service will email its notification group contacts, issue simulated test tsunami watches under the exercise parameters, and continue to send subsequent messages as required.
As part of the exercise, the Bermuda Weather Service will also update messaging on its website. Any tsunami-related notices or messages published there on Thursday, 19 March 2026, will be for exercise purposes only and should not cause public alarm.
Participating agencies will also be contacted by email to enact their tsunami contingency plans. The training scenario is based on a significant volcanic event at Kick-’em-Jenny Volcano in Grenada, reported at around 1500 UTC on Thursday, 19 March 2026.
Under the exercise timeline, test messages will be issued throughout the day, beginning with the start of the exercise at 11:00 a.m. and concluding with a final tsunami information statement at 3:30 p.m., when the tsunami threat is deemed to have passed.