Villager recounts rescue of boy in treacherous Sans Souci waters

Last Tuesday morning, September 23, 2025, at Sans Souci, Gabriel Smart recounted to the media the harrowing experience he went through on Sunday, September, 21, 2025, when he saved Kishorn Pope, a 12-year-old boy, from drowning. It was another youngster who had run to seek help for his friend in distress.

Smart, also known as Webb, alongside his sister Narissa Smart said, “I was home and the young guy come and he start to call, so when I come out I saw him, so I say ‘what happened’? so he tell me now he and his friend was on the rock and his friend dropped off the rock and water come up and lick him up”.

Smart related how he ran into the house, grabbed a length of rope he had been coiling… “then I get a old cooler because I said ‘it get some kind of foam in there, it might go float’, you know.”

He grabbed the item and ran with the youngster who  had brought the news, to try and render assistance.

Smart and the friend climbed the rock near a place called Blow Hole, and upon getting to the top, he was able to grasp the scary situation. He saw Pope in the water, and thought how he would be able to reach him. He then asked the friend to call the SVG Coast Guard base and ask for assistance.

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