Links to dying podcast probes scuba scandal

The shocking case of the four professional divers, which were collected in a 75 cm oil pipeline in front of the Caribbean island of Trinidad in early 2022, is the topic of a podcast that this week entitled “With the title” with the title ” Pipeline: to die on the left.

Now Episode 1 is available in which the events are outlined and relatives of the men, as well as Episode 2, which is based on a first interview with Christopher Boodram, the diver who survived the tragedy and a GoPro audio recording of his enclosed colleagues.

Episode 3 of an investigation described as a real -time examination falls on May 29 and begins to deal with the cloudy politics that the divers cannot save, including an interview with Trinidad & Tobago's former Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, who represents Boodram.

National outrage

The fatal incident occurred Divernet.

As the podcast manufacturer DMG Media emphasizes, international reporting on what many consider in Trinidad as a national outrage is steamed. DMG contrasts the incident with underwater stories such as the flooded Thai cave and the titanium Submersible, which became well known and triggered costly international rescue attempts.

The team of underwater welding had used Scuba to achieve a 5m deep underwater habitat to carry out repairs on the pipeline if a safety plug was opened too suddenly, which led to a powerful vacuum effect.

The divers were sucked into the pipe, and some might have survived more than 30 hours in their cramped, oily surroundings, even if they were not sure how they were exposed.

Divers under their relatives tried their own rescue, but with the help of Air Tanks, Boodram managed to get help to get help to the other. This would be shocked when he was found after the intensive care unit, and it had never occurred.

“Rescue blocked”

In the podcast, the investigative journalist Isabelle Stanley examines why attempts to get the men out of interested parties on the oil -dependent Caribbean island seem to have been actively blocked.

The divers worked for the service company LMCs, which was led by the father of one of the deaths and which was contractually for the pipeline task by the state oil company Paria Fuel Trading, which subsequently refused to assume liability for their death.

In 2024, the Trinidad & Tobago investigation commission came to the conclusion that “little or no attempt to save the divers” and that Paria's handling of the incident was criminal, which indicates that the company was exposed to charges due to charges.

The pipeline Podcast “reveals the truth behind this catastrophic event – a story that has so far hardly been treated in international news,” says DMG Media. “Attorney attempts were actively prevented by the state -owned oil company, with armed officials being sent to the scene to reduce potential rescue workers.”

DMG adds that the evidence that you have accumulated indicates “negligence between companies, political interference and a persistent cover -up”. According to the story, “led us to lucrative contracts, failed security standards and secret political relationships – and to a question: Why did these divers stay die?”

Pipeline: to die on the left Is available here and can be found on all Podcast platforms.

Also next week (May 27th) is a TV documentary film about the failure titanium immerse Implosion: The Titani sub -disaster. It is broadcast on BBC Two and available on BBC IPlayer.

Also at Divernet: 4 divers die after they were sucked into the pipe, and the deaths of Diver Pipeline, which were held responsible for the “criminal negligence of the oil society”, accused.Present Divers sucked in Dammpipe: the operator is setting up