The liner Seven Seas Splendor was going up the Gironde estuary when it caused, this Saturday, May 20, a wave of exceptional height, reports Ouest-France. This gigantic sea wave caused a lot of damage on the banks of the Ambès peninsula, ravaging the departmental road along the way, but also cellars, terraces and gardens. Individuals were also affected.
For the inhabitants of the commune of Saint-Louis-de-Montferrand, bordered by the ocean, this wave has been compared to a “tsunami”. Two of them saw their house completely flooded. “The wall of water split the terrace, tore the wooden slabs, flooded the cellar and destroyed a wall of breeze blocks in the garage”, explains a resident to France Bleu Gironde, before adding: “It’s still extraordinary, when we are in the middle of a period of ecology, ecology, ecology, boats are damaging the banks, it is damaging homes, it is damaging the dykes, it is damaging everything. »
The deputy director of the large maritime port of Bordeaux, meanwhile, wanted to pr
