Following a brief Christmas break, the Commission of Enquiry (CoE) into the Paria diving tragedy is set to resume today at 10 am.
This will be followed by sittings on Thursday and Friday of this week.
On February 25th, divers Fyzal Kurban, Kazim Ali Jr, Rishi Nagassar, Yusuf Henry and Christopher Boodram were sucked into an undersea pipeline by a surge of water pressure known as a Delta P.
Boodram escaped but the other four men died.
The CoE, under British KC Jerome Lynch, is seeking to find out why the divers were sucked in and why no official rescue efforts were made.
Two Paria Fuel Trading Company Ltd managers will testify today.
They are Mohamed Mushtaq and Paria HSE co-ordinator Paul Yearwood.
Relatives and colleagues of the deceased have said in both verbal testimony and written witness statements that a rescue attempt should have been made, even as divers known to the trapped men were volunteering to do so.
Paria claims they needed to determine conditions inside the pipeline first and their consultations with diving experts found insufficient information was known to risk the lives of any rescuer sent into the pipe which was a quarter mile long and contained oil.
Those listed to testify on Thursday were Paria’s Randolph Archibald, Rolph Seales of Kenson, Krishna Fuentes and Heritage’s Osei Flemming-Holder. On Friday, testimony is due from Andy Johnson of Eastern Emergency Response Services Ltd, Anderson Gill of Gull Support Services Ltd and Antonio Donawa of Offshore Technologies Solutions Ltd.
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