A security boss who battled with rioters on the BermyNet boat on Friday night, yesterday blamed the promoter for not checking boarders at Dockyard for weapons.

And Kendricks Zuill, manager of Deep Dale Bouncers, said the resembled a battlefield during a 45-minute fight in which his team were vastly outnumbered and feared for their lives as makeshift cocktail bombs rained down.

Mr. Zuill said when he arrived at the Bermudiana there were already up to 30 people onboard and some went unsearched because they had been vouched for by the BermyNET promoter.

In a statement released to both Police and Press, Mr. Zuill said: ?The promoter vouched for their credibility saying, ?They are with me, they are cool??. Then the boat left.?

Mr. Zuill said his team fully searched all males, and women?s purses, for anything which could inflict injury when it made its next stop at Hamilton.

?There were no weapons recovered from the 280 people who boarded in Hamilton and they were fully searched one by one.?

He said that search involved the DJs but there were only five people looking after the safety of 300 people ? not eight as had been claimed by BermyNET organiser Brenton Richardson.

He said the fight started between females at 11.30 p.m. but began to spread to the middle deck where he and two of his workers found a colleague in a scuffle with a group.

?He had a bump on his head and his shirt was torn apart. Immediately I got in between two groups but there were too many of them trying to fight each other for five of us to handle,? he said.

?Regardless we still tried, putting our lives at risk to calm things down. This went on for about 45 minutes before we got to Dockyard. Throughout the ride from St. George?s to Dockyard, it was like a battlefield. No one could go from the top deck to the middle deck without being hit by some type of object.?

Weapons included bottles, fire hoses, fire extinguishers, stand up poles used for speakers and makeshift Molotov cocktails made by shoving barbecue lighting fuel into beer bottles.

He said: ?There were no firearms seen or shot off that I heard but there were some guys making the suggestion they had a weapon by gripping their pants like they had something in there but, no one I saw was brandishing a gun.

?Thank God no one was killed. We tried our best to calm things down before it became a whole lot worse.?

Police said the violence started when women linked to Town and Country gangs clashed.

understands BermyNET have not yet handed over photos of the event to Police.