An interactive pirate show complete with sword fighting and fire displays is on the books for this year’s tourist season in Dockyard.

The event will be put on by Calico Jack’s Floating Bar and is one of several new initiatives announced yesterday to tourism stakeholders at the preseason Royal Naval Dockyard Breakfast.

Others include a permanent zip line, possible helium balloon, expanded Dolphin Quest programme and revamped re-enactment and walking tour.

“This is going to be a great season,” Andrew Dias, the general manager of the West End Development Corporation, said.

“The season that we have before us will continue to build towards the America’s Cup in 2017 and we really want to deliver a product for Bermuda that all of us can be proud of.”

According to Wedco marketing and social media coordinator Rebekah Cabral, Calico Jack’s has become a “great business and entertainment provider in Dockyard”.

This year, she said the bar would be having a twice-weekly pirate show with a fully-dressed character interacting with the guests and possibly making them walk the plank.

Nicole Lindo, the bar’s general manager, added they would be putting on the “piratey-fire show” featuring sword fighting and fire breathing with Rockfire Productions

Meanwhile, Wedco business development manager Joanne Cranfield said a permanent zip line would be installed and a helium ballon was being looked into.

Additionally, a new jewellery store will be set up in the North Basin Building Nine and Ms Cabral added that Dolphin Quest would also expand, with programmes planned for the new outer habitat.

And the historical re-enactment and walking tours will be combined and made “much more visible and interactive”, she said.

Public relations and marketing strategist Jodi Lewis also introduced the interactive marketing tool Social Box, which will be based in Dockyard.

The sixth Wedco preseason breakfast was held at Bonefish Grill to inform stakeholders of the new events planned for the upcoming season.

“It gives us the opportunity of connecting the new vendors and the existing vendors here in the Dockyard with the concierge services at the hotels to show them what their guests can expect at the Dockyard for this season,” Wedco chairman Ray Charlton said, adding that the breakfast saw a great turnout.

Mr Dias also highlighted some of the achievements over the past year, saying that work on Cross Island in the South Basin was expected to be done on time and on budget by the end of June.

Restoration of Dockyard’s buildings has also progressed, with every North Basin historical building expected to be wind and watertight with new roofs and windows by the end of 2016.

Other improvements include new sprinkler systems and upgrades to the water and sewage infrastructure to ensure Dockyard can handle the volume of visitors expected over the next two years.