April 14, 2025

The Paria Incident | Chapter 2 of 2

When Christopher Boodram reached the top of...

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Season 10 S10 | Season X / Anthology

Part 2 of 2.

When Christopher Boodram reached the top of the riser his nightmare was far from over. In fact, you might say that it had only begun.

 

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Kay tapes from the Dark Side contains descriptions of violence

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and sexuality. Listener discretion is advised.

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It said no weight from an hour with but I can't.

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I need to go, and did you? I did? And

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as I go may be able to for this one.

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Because it was a short distance, I could judge that

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there was maybe around the tito for defeat or what

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I may felt.

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That's the forf No.

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One's going to hold you to, mister Pegrammer, I understand,

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but anyway you felt, it was a lot shorter from

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from the.

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Ben, and I feel it. Ben pause.

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Because now I'm going to unface either death or life, right,

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because remember I still no show if are going to

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five or sixty.

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And right, so it's either light above you or not.

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I make up my mind to die for the third time.

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And I went up.

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For the third time today Christopher prepares himself to meet death.

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Take the tank and I went.

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I find yellow, and I find yellow. I still alone

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the tank because so much in fear of that being

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a blank and I may have to traverse back. So

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when I find that tank, I was stealing. Okay, well

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I have a next tank. This this might be a

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lifeline in case that goes up day. So I grabbed

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the next tank and I went up.

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This is the third tank that Christopher finds, and he

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takes it up to the top just in case it's

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a dead And.

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Did you see daylight?

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Inside? It was pitch black? All right?

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I feel like if I could give up. When I

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reached up there and I see nobody inside it.

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No, none, none.

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Of my none of my I would call him family

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was inside.

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The waiting and you text no rescue diver.

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No, nobody was inside the chamber. When I see that,

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I wasn't sure if I was living still because it

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was so unbelievable to know this happened and nobody here

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to assists me.

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Nobody.

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I didn't see nobody inside the pipe trying their rescue.

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Nothing.

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Every time I opened my eyes and I can see anything.

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And I started feeling around, and I felt that change

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for money. Chain block was hanging inside the pipe, was

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hanging inside the pipe. I used that and I wrap

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up my right and on it. Yes, well, and I said,

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all right, Chris, we gotta try trying to climb out.

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Several times I realized I couldn't climb out.

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I couldn't wage myself in the pipe was too small

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to try to wearge yourself in the pipe to climb up,

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and it was too slippery.

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It was like about four to five feet floating.

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Any water it would reached me around the eye and

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me kicking and swimming tadn't know what.

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But could you see the top.

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Of the part right, And that was like out of

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your reach, out of my reach, like the ceiling here,

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not that high, not even that high, no, not that just.

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Barely out of my reach, just barely.

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Understanding frustration, I can't to reach this far and can't.

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Come out and hold onto the chain.

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And I tried to pull up, and I'm forcing this arm.

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To give me some string to try to hold on.

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I I made three.

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Or four attempts and on a hold on and this

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nim getting strained and give.

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Up on myself every time.

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I'm falling back now, so I had no strength to

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pull myself out of it.

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I take the chain, I make her not on the

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chain with my right hand.

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I put my foot foot in it, and I'm trying

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to pull up on it now and after all the attempts,

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are trying to climb up without doing that, like nobody know.

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It's too weak to actually put myself up.

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You know.

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So from there the only thing.

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I realized I could do now is just boil and

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call and pray somebody upside there, somebody I just hope

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outside on fire, Hope somebody actually.

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Care, you know, the rescue.

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I wrapped the the hook, the on the chain, the

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next end of the chain.

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On my hand here.

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So when I was plunging on the and bawling and

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crying and bawling, help me, and and polling, and then

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and between that year knock after year, I knock and

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knock it back once. Then the person like they hear knock,

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and then to dong dong, them back to dot dong

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so they could understand that this is not just not

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something swinging, is somebody actually selling your signal.

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Reacting to the knocks, rather than just something he is hanging.

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I got you.

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And then I started to hear our little sign up.

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Bawling like how many caroly here.

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Distinctively waited, But I understand that all right, they're hearing me,

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and a hold on there their life, feeling the fiend,

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feeling the black oat, totally exhosted.

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And then all of a sudden, I just see a

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light because if you know.

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And again I'm pulling on a reason as father could

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reason and get a little peep. But I can't sit down.

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I just seen a little ovady and I started to

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see you, a little light shadowing.

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Any any.

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Habitat, any habitat. Yeah, I swear to God it was

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in jely that coming from it. I tell myself, this

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is a dizzy light that the people I'll be talking

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about coming like, I swear this was that coming from it.

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Christopher sees a light and he swears to God it

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was the Angel of Death.

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Mm hmmm.

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One person coming in the chamber. Now I know Ranal

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Ramuta personally, he being a man taught to me and diving.

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He is my neighbor.

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I grew up underneath him and I did not recognize him.

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He had an hoody crabby. All I seen is just

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like a lighted image when I see my jets back

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in the pipe, and I started like woody chain because

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I'm fright and.

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Not knowing what is this? Like, who's Who's let me

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say by me, But I said why me?

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Who?

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Why? I mean who? Why? Sally? You? Sally that you by?

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He said yes? Take said by when I get out,

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please say yeah?

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Well yeah, by and need try pulling him up once

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or twice, but yeahlone couldn't bring him out because he

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had the pipe. He didn't not much force some his

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side because you know two to need that.

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And also.

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I don't care to go and get help, so of

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course don't leave, man. I had to go and help

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and come back by.

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A man named Roy finds Christopher at the top of

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the pipe and he tries to pull him up, but

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Roly is not strong enough to complete the task all

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by himself, so he leaves to find help and return.

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Boy, don't leave me, but I don't know how long

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I can rule on you. I gave as I tell

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him that, he said, look for you, come in car

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you sorright, Corey said Corey, say yeah, by Christmas? Game out, Diana,

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Well I was by game out Ayana, sorry goryoule man.

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Roley returns with a man named Corey, and together they

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will try to bring Christopher to safety, but.

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Really help and me trying to webout strength iad left

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pulled me out and the pipe really asked me for

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all right? Say yeah, says he not too far by

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I fight you not too far.

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Corey and Rolly finally pulled Christopher out to safety, and

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Chris right away is worried about his friends. Phizi first

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because fires was not that far behind.

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Pulls it from minute. Were you telling them that they

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were alive still when you left them?

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Yes?

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Thanks telling Rolide really the first puss and he had

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run around. That was the first puss, and alongside Corey

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because when he came in he asked me, say one

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time follow us with but I know also.

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Fighting not too far from my wife.

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Everybody don't know right well, I'll go for them now

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you say, yeah, well you just wait and for equipment by.

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Mister Bam. What we're going to do is have a

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short break. All right. We're gonna take a little break now.

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Just have a cup of tea or something. Someone will

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look after you, all right, and we're resuming about twenty minutes,

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all right, twenty two please twenty to twelve. Take your time,

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and then we're going to deal with the second phase.

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All right, Let mister Maharad deal with the second phrase.

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But I'm really grateful for your evidence so far. Right,

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just you take take take it for twenty minutes. All right,

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thank you very much.

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You rise.

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Now there's a break in the proceedings, and when they resume,

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they begin discussion of what happened to Christopher after he

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had emerged from the pipeline.

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Before I are you Jody jim ikim Oi habitat. I

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asked Cory to find out from Andrew Fara how long

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I was down therefore, because as a diver, overstaying your

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time could lead to decompression sickness. And do I need

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uh decompression chamber? Corey came back told me, and you

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say come out. I see how long he just said

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come out? I say, go and ask him again if

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I need to go into a chamber. I work so

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hard to reach out here and then reach on the

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top of the surface and have decompression sickness.

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He went back and too far. I told him a

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good come out.

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Chris is cleared for decompression sickness, and so he swims

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up from the chamber to the surface. At the surface

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is where he sees Nicholas curb On fis all Curbon's son.

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As as they pull him up on the boarth. My

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eyes fell on Nicholas Courban. I see Nicholas Coroban. I said, Nicholas,

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go and save your father. Go and save your father.

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You're not fathom your idea, and go and save your father.

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And Nicholas said all right. And Nicholas is a diver.

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I don't know.

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Back now I tell him, I say about them fellas

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in there, look, go and save them.

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I k go and save them.

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And he was like, all right, all right, but you relax,

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you relax, I said, but relax to what better? Let

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me go back and save them. And because I want

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to do that, and you say, hey, relax yourself.

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You in shock.

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I said nothing, shock, then fellas down ley way, let

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me get him.

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Christopher then addresses Michael Kurban, another one of Izo's sons

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and a competent diver.

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I said, Michael, go and save your father.

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And Michael say, all right, and you start the place

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back on fourth, on on on the on, on the habitat,

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on top of the habitat, and I was like, oh,

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my quantive, yeah, I use some profanities your father, no,

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why no? And then you run off the the thing.

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At the same time, the chance on me. Don't want

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the chance on me from one of them.

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Both to the other.

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Okay, I know, difficult to remember everything, but the transferred you.

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Did anyone take you to any decompression unit that afternoon?

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No, boy, no, nobody didn't. I felt like nobody kid.

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For me or.

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My diving bodies.

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Nobody will be right back after a quick commercial break.

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Don't go anywhere.

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Right when when it take me and they put me

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on the booth, I let him know. I say, hey,

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cut off this wet suit, off farm and check the

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sea for the scene. Any wounds, any lacerations, anything, any blood,

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anything bleeding because my body, no, I don't know, and

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if I seen it, I had to stop the bleeding.

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I can. I don't know.

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Right after the cut open you wed suit didn't see nothing.

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I believe it was either a Pario official or Kenson official.

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Somebody within Pario organization assisted with cutting audium the wed too.

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I said, I'll check my head, look on naddi oil

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look good to see or less?

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You know?

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No, bos said no nothing else bleeding, check good, check good,

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and they checked this, say now you good.

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Aside from the initial delta piece situation that led to

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the whole catastrophe in the first place. This seems to

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be the second point of failure during the rescue operation.

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Here is what we know. There was some sort of

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security camera in the bar that was monitoring the men

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that cut out when the delta piece situation occurred, and

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it took three hours for men to arrive to help.

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That's when Christopher was initially pulled to safety. Ideally, there

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would have been a team ready to dive into the

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pipe to rescue the remaining men, and we do know

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that Michael and Nicholas Kurbun were there and they would

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attempt some kind of dive mission, but they didn't have

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all the necessary gear yet, so there was a further delay.

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We'll get into that later. It's also a peculiar that

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Pariah didn't have anyone there to gather information from Christopher

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that might serve them in helping during a rescue mission.

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Christopher says he remembers there maybe being one Pariah official

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there who helped cut off his wet suit, but the

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man didn't really ask him any questions. There really was

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no debrief that occurred, and.

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Guys on the top of it.

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Because at this nor rescue at them for me though

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I felt no rescue attempt.

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Mister drama, I want to ask you a very important question.

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If when you were rescued, either Parrio or LMCS wanted

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to find out from you the condition in the pipe.

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In order to effect a rescue.

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Would were you in a position to tell them what

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the condition of the pipeline was?

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While when I know COMMODI pipe, my mind and everything

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was focused on tuning to everything to save them for

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us if they had the briefing.

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There and then everything that could I give from including

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the condition in the pipe, everything I could tell them.

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Why if you were in.

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The pipeline and you were coming out, and you had

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promised the men that they would be rescued, did you

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see anything in that pipeline during the time you were

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in that pipeline to obstruct to anyone from coming into

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that pipeline to rescue the man?

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Is not anything to help struck them? How I come up?

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How I come up?

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This marks the end of Christopher's testimony and they go

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to an open Q and A one of the reporters

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asked the first question to definitively clarify whether there was

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any attempt by Pariah to debrief Christopher after he emerge

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from the pipeline.

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What I want to ask a ten is really when

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you came out and he puts down what else ms

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or Pario attempted to get a debrief of what happened

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in the pipeline.

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That's one I was. I was. I didn't want to

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leave the side. I'm begin to stelf let me come

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back for you man and of himself. I don't know that.

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I'm I'm sure if I didn't come up at least.

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A percent, nobody can't tell me about all that ship

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about carrys cute people eye diving up pipe before at

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that point inside the rise on same bird sixth, I

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went inside that on a piperself, call him piper. I

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went in that and put in I saw a paper

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gasket because you couldn't stall it from the outside because

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you sud just slamming against it. I went in the

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five on that school myself. But you're talking all talking

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about scuba and scuba score for ever, all every diving

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in there, scuba, every company coming there was scuba for

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all the years.

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Can you help me this please? And follows on from

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what mister Wilson was saying, when when you were being

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ferried in the ambulance to go to hospital. Right, did

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anybody accompany you in the ambulance? Was there anybody from

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Pario or no? Lmcs had less chickens over it.

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Here's a curious part of the whole incident. We know

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there was no attempt made to debrief Christopher, but Pariah

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claims they got him on a conference call later that night,

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and that Chris said something along the lines of quote,

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I want to say up front, I ain't think them

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fellas make it. Pariah would later use these words to

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justify no rescue attempts being made. But Christopher disputes ever

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saying these words, and in fact disputes ever being on

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that call in the first place.

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Do you remember if you were.

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Put on a call.

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With mister Colin Piper, a man called Randolph Archbold and

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uh Bush Tach Mohammad. Do you know if you were

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put on a phone call with them later that night?

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I have no recollections.

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Anybody, only other than Randy for the ambulance, and said.

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My wife, and my wife was filtering phone.

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Calls also while I was in the hospital, because a

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lot that media people.

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And I said, of course, of course, but you have

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no recollection of having a conversation at about ten o'clock,

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and I very very much don't.

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I would see that them fellas die because I come

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out and I tell everybody there was living in front

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that I do have.

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Nobody could deny that I said everybody was living was the.

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It could act the whole hospital staff.

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Because don't throw this whole PERI are just breaking on

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the hospital. Anyone a read doctors who see about me,

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they will tell you anyone as everybody there what.

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They want to do.

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Drama.

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I think everybody everybody accepts that you made that clear.

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I want to read something that mister Piper said in

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a conversation. He said he had with you a paragraph

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one thirty one of the witness Statement Spondor at page

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one three six eight. I asked Budram how he was doing.

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Mister Budram responded by saying, mister Piper, I want to

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say up front, I hinting them fellas make it or

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words to that effect. The phone was placed on speaker

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phone mode and mister Budram's words were audible to persons

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are wrong. Did you did you tell mister Piper that.

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I did not?

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So specifically, you didn't tell mister piper. Mister, I want

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to say upfront, I hateing them fellas.

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Make it that I'm makeing sense, mister rahmish. Okay, now

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why are we just call pie pipe and say just.

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So hey upfront by them fellas? Dead boy? Are we

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trying to say?

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I say, okay, all right, I want to ask you

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another question now.

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The last question from council, I think is an interesting one.

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Would Christopher have chosen to go back in the pipeline,

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knowing what he knows? Now, if that was an.

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Option, We'll be right back after a quick commercial break.

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Don't go anywhere.

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From what you saw in that pipeline. Would you have

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gone into the pipeline to rescue them?

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Yes? And I will tell this from my experience, even

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if I was not in this situation, and I was

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a diver outsidey situation in sidy pipeline.

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Let's see for then, out Siety pipeplane.

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Insidey pipeline, there is no predators, there is no currents,

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there is nothing to fall on your inside a pipeline.

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Christopher Boudraum escaped the pipeline and made it to safety.

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This much we know.

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But what would be the fate of his four friends

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Kazim Ali, Rishi Nagaser, Yusuf Henry and Faizo Kurban. Let's

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run through a brief timeline, A short recap what do

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we know so far? February twenty fifth, twenty twenty two,

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at two fifteen pm, five divers entered the chamber. Exactly

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thirty minutes later, at two forty five pm, LMCS diver

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Andrew Ferra was informed that the visual camera was non

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functional in the chamber. Later that day, Pariah said that

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during an exercise, an incident occurred which resulted in quote

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loss of sight unquote of the five member team who

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were being quote monitored from shore end quote. Pariah said

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that incident management protocols were triggered and one member was rescued.

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The next day, on February twenty six, Pariah issued another update,

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this time at three pm. This means the men had

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been in the pipeline over twenty four hours. Families of

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the divers gathered outside the facility asking for answers, and

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they set up a temporary station near Pariah's car park

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facility under a bus shed. This update, again was rather

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non substantial, containing minimal information about the diver's safety, and

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if there was any rescue operation being carried out. The

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next day, February twenty seventh, at twelve thirty pm, after

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the men had been in the pipeline forty five hours,

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PARIAH said that rescue efforts were ongoing. And then finally,

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at seven thirty pm that night, after the men had

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been in the pipeline well over forty eight hours, PARIAH

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held a press conference in which they indicated that this

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was no longer a rescue operation and was now a

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recovery exercise. The frustration of the public during this press

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conference is palpable. The families were furious had rescue attempts

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actually occurred? Why were the families not notified in the

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days earlier of these rescue missions if they were made.

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We actually have footage of this very press conference. Audio

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quality is spotty at times, and I'm going to again

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try to translate when necessary.

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Five divers when missing last week Friday, one was since

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rescued and Paria is calling its fist press conference since

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that time to address public concerns. At the head table

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right now you're seeing on your left is mister mush

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Stock Mohammed, general manager at Paria Center. Mister Newman George,

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Chairman of PARIA, and to the right is mister Colin Piper.

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He is the terminal operations Manager and incident Commander at PARIA.

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I would like to express condolences to the families of

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mister Faisal Kovan, mister Rishi Avisa, mister yuself, Henry, mister.

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I would like to hand you over now to.

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Aria's General Manager, mister Mushtak Mohammad.

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That was Colin Piper, operations manager and incident commander. Some

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would come to blame Colin Piper directly for the lack

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of an attempt to rescue.

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Name to the press and age in public.

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Following on from what Colin just described, Aria is correctly

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moving from a rescue operation to our recovery operation.

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And this is based on the.

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Available expert advice from E Trailer to being a coast

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guard and a number of commercial diving experts that were consulted.

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Based on all the information we had, the probability of

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survival was very low and your risk of rescue was

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high or intolerable. This decision was not an easy decision

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and it was made in consultation with all of our stakeholders.

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The incident management team including our contractor LMCS, the Coast Guards,

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diving experts, engineering experts, and Parrier's engineering team. The decision

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was made after careful consideration to two key factors, number

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one being the extremely low likelihood of survival and number

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two being the risk of pacing human life in danger

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infurence of a rescue objective. Our focus now is to

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treat these bodies with respect during the process of recovery

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and to return them to their loved ones.

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The question then becomes, when was the decision made to

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not even attempt to rescue?

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When was a dictamin that this would now be a

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recovery mission and not one of rescue.

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When was that dicumen That decision was made this afternoon

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in conjunction with our contractors, with our experts from the

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commercial diving fertility and with the in part of the

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trying to be who goest guard.

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Mister moment, what I mean is when was the determined

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that the men were no longer alive and you all

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could not go into rescue and instead going to recover bodies.

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We can we can't answer the question of when it

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was determined whether the man was alive?

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What we what we are saying is that.

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At this time, based on all the advice we have

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we have gotten, the likelihood of survival is extremely low

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and the risk of human rescue to the pipeline is

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extremely high.

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We'll be right back after a quick commercial break. Don't

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go anywhere.

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There is an.

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Up country outrage.

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Tonight three days later, you are coming with this first conference.

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Why wasn't something done, you know, when there were relatives

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who went in within an hour or two to save

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one of the men, and nothing done since that to

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possibly go in. Even relatives have been saying that they've

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been volunteering. Why hasn't there been a mission out there outside.

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Of that.

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Today?

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As we said earlier, the issue that we have been

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trying to understand and walk along is understand the condition

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between the pipeline before placing any further person in danger.

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By entering into that pipeline.

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During the time we have spent and used various technologies

487
00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:51.000
to get into that pipeline, to understand and determine what

488
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:54.599
were the conditions so we could have felt that it

489
00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:58.519
was safe enough to put another person in harms way.

490
00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:00.440
In a rescue situation.

491
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:06.920
Come on gathering all that data and having discussions, But

492
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.640
the best experts we have in country, including the Course Guard.

493
00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:15.359
It was determined that that risk of selling divers into

494
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:17.000
that pipeline was intolerable.

495
00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:20.720
Well, hear from this family member who volunteered to go

496
00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:24.319
on a rescue mission. But first let's hear one last

497
00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.960
question from the press conference.

498
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:29.960
I just want to find out you spoke about the

499
00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:34.319
low probability of persons being alive inside the pipeline and

500
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:36.240
basically advice you see. Is it that you're saying that

501
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:39.279
there's no concrete evidence that has come forward that these

502
00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:41.839
men are lives still and we have.

503
00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:49.240
No concrete evidence to make that conclusion.

504
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:49.279
At this time.

505
00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.119
This man claims to be Phizi's son. That's fisl Kurban,

506
00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:58.880
one of the men who died in the pipeline, and

507
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.519
he recorded this video at an informal press conference on

508
00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:06.079
February twenty eighth, one day after the conference that we

509
00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:07.240
just heard clips from.

510
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:11.799
I was called an hour after my brother called me.

511
00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:18.119
He said, everybody's shaking on the badge and nobody know

512
00:32:18.279 --> 00:32:22.599
what to do. I got my two of my divers

513
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:24.880
and we came to the rescue.

514
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.319
When we went Reach Outside, Reach Outside.

515
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:33.079
About half an hour after that, pour reorganized to dive

516
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:39.240
and re checked the hed the chamber. We noticed that

517
00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:43.359
it didn't hurt nobody inside. The other thing is that

518
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.799
one of the divers was on the tip top.

519
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:48.119
Of your eyes.

520
00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:52.400
I would askis the poe banging on the bie Nobody

521
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:57.799
after OHI banging on our inside. Nobody to rescue only

522
00:32:57.880 --> 00:32:59.519
when me and my divers came.

523
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:03.640
We rescue him. When we rescue him, he told me

524
00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:05.359
my father is right behind him.

525
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:06.799
Go down for your father.

526
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:13.759
It took me about fifteen minutes to organize McGear to

527
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:14.720
go to honeypipe.

528
00:33:15.680 --> 00:33:18.559
He said, it took me fifty minutes to organize my

529
00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:20.319
gear to go down in the pipe.

530
00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:25.720
I swim the honey pipe about seventy feet down. I

531
00:33:25.880 --> 00:33:31.480
did not locate him. I located dip up. After we

532
00:33:31.599 --> 00:33:34.640
came back up, we told him that we didn't find

533
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.240
nobody else, so we had to try a different alternative.

534
00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.920
When we came back, the manager, so called manager, said,

535
00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:46.039
do not dive into the pipeline again.

536
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:49.880
And I asked, who is the manager, Sarah.

537
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.400
Nobody didn't want to say the name, but I would

538
00:33:54.400 --> 00:34:00.200
say the name because this man Colin Piper, Colin Pipe.

539
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:04.759
Right, tell my man.

540
00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:11.519
Right, Colin Piper is a man we heard from just

541
00:34:11.679 --> 00:34:15.559
briefly during the press conference earlier held by Pariah the

542
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:20.000
day before. Colin was the operations manager and incident commander.

543
00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.320
We still had time to save them, guys, still have time.

544
00:34:24.079 --> 00:34:25.480
But you know what the orders they get.

545
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:30.639
The orders they get was a plug the flange and

546
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:34.519
block the divers from surface and back up where we

547
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:35.519
were rescue the firstman.

548
00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.199
Why would that order? Why would you give an order

549
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:40.480
like that.

550
00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:45.440
And block the only entrance the fellaws know the surface

551
00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:50.960
for help, right, and I told them, do not block it.

552
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:54.280
Let me send a commercial divedom with.

553
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:58.880
The proper lifeline and learry rescue them. Guys again, the

554
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:03.760
managers is once Lemisie dive exspoots, Lemisie dive exspoot.

555
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.000
Yeah.

556
00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:07.079
I don't know what kind of brain sales this man have, right,

557
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:09.199
we was doing your writing.

558
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:13.840
Oh could you close out entrance where the men could

559
00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:19.079
possibly raise and survival, we could die and rescue them.

560
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:23.440
You shouldn't do that, right, all this bullshit, all this

561
00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:26.800
talk you're talking in the press conference, Try not to

562
00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:29.679
cover up your trucks, Planner, because you're not covering up

563
00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:30.199
your trucks.

564
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.440
Your eye murderer in my eyes.

565
00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:43.280
For obvious reasons, this case became a global phenomenon, spectacle

566
00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.800
who was picked up by media outlets all over the world,

567
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:51.000
and there began to be a growing international pressure as

568
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:55.119
well as local pressure to figure out exactly what happened

569
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:58.599
and why there was no rescue attempt made. This resulted

570
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:02.079
in the inquiry we are heard extensive clips from in

571
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.119
which Christopher Boudram testified, but it also resulted in a

572
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:10.599
five hundred and twenty page document being produced that extensively

573
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:13.880
broke down the events of that day. We have access

574
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:18.280
to this document and we'll review exactly what happened in

575
00:36:18.360 --> 00:36:22.639
the aftermath of the Pariah Delta P event right after

576
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:34.079
a quick break. The five hundred and twenty page document

577
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:38.199
has almost every single piece of information you could imagine,

578
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:41.320
and for that reason it is rather cumbersome. What I

579
00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:43.920
want to attempt to do is to highlight the most

580
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:46.719
important entries, to try to get at the heart of

581
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.000
where the communication breakdown happened. Essentially, our question is this,

582
00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:55.199
if there were willing divers and there were four men

583
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:58.920
still trapped, why were there no rescue dive attempts made?

584
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.920
What happened I'm going to read the following timeline out

585
00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:06.400
in military time, because that's how it appears in the document.

586
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:09.920
Of course, if you want to translate, you just subtract twelve.

587
00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:18.320
At fourteen fifteen hours, five divers entered the chamber, Kazim Ali, Rishi, Nagasar, Yusef,

588
00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:23.400
Henry Faisal Kurban, and Christopher Boudram. Thirty minutes later, at

589
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:29.039
fourteen forty five hours, LMCS diver Andrew Farra was informed

590
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:32.840
that the visual camera is non functional. Andrew Farah also

591
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:35.639
said there was no sign of divers or cylinders in

592
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:40.519
the chamber. At fifteen hundred and eighteen hours, A Richardson

593
00:37:40.840 --> 00:37:45.559
informed of emergency and responded to the tug landing. At

594
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.599
fifteen forty hours, the Coastguard was informed. At sixteen forty

595
00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:56.679
eight hours, a man named Ramkusoon reported hearing divers knocking

596
00:37:56.760 --> 00:38:01.039
on the pipe. At seventeen forty five hours, Colin Piper

597
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:04.519
informed the ICP that one person was rescued and was

598
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.760
being brought to shore. LMCS diver Michael Kurbun had brought

599
00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:11.079
him up. If we do the math, that means that

600
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:14.159
Chris had been in the pipeline for three hours At

601
00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:18.840
eighteen hundred hours, diver Michael Kurbun recovered the go pro

602
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:23.320
camera and cylinder from the pipe. At eighteen oh three hours,

603
00:38:23.679 --> 00:38:28.599
Christopher Boudrum was confirmed by LMCS as the first person rescued.

604
00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:33.519
At eighteen eighteen hours, Colin Piper requested breathing air in

605
00:38:33.719 --> 00:38:39.599
four other personnel. At eighteen thirty one hours, ifs fire

606
00:38:39.719 --> 00:38:44.119
personnel said one diver will be deployed. At eighteen fifty

607
00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:49.159
five hours. Divers and diving equipment arrived on site. At

608
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:53.840
nineteen fifty nine hours, About four hours after the incident,

609
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:57.679
there was a faint knocking sound heard ever so often

610
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:01.719
and it was reported via radio personnel. At twenty fifty

611
00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:04.880
three hours, there was an update on Christopher Boudram. He

612
00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:09.159
was reported in stable condition. At twenty one three hours,

613
00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:14.599
TTCG Lieutenant Hargreaves asked Colin Piper if there was another

614
00:39:14.719 --> 00:39:18.880
option besides sending TTCG divers down into the pipe to

615
00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:21.880
perform the rescue, as he doesn't think it's safe to

616
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.039
send a diver down. He asked Colin Piper to provide

617
00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:29.039
other recommendations and options. Three minutes later, at twenty one

618
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:34.440
six hours, in discussion with Kasim Ali, Senior Kathleen Balkisen

619
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:38.199
and the PFTC team. A decision was taken to install

620
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:41.440
a riser school at birth number six to bring the

621
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:45.760
end above water to atmosphere and therefore remove the flange

622
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.960
on the riser at birth number five. At twenty one

623
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:54.239
fifty eight hours, patient Christopher Budram was interviewed by telephone,

624
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:58.039
providing information to the ICT. This is the interview that

625
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:01.679
we heard. Disputed by Christopher. He says it never happened.

626
00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:07.480
At twenty two thirty eight hours, ITCG Lieutenant Hargreaves contacted

627
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.800
the ICT to discuss a way forward. They said they'll

628
00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:13.880
discuss with the senior person and get back to the ic.

629
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.920
ICT asked that his decision be made as soon as possible.

630
00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:23.400
At twenty three fifty hours, just before midnight, ITCG Lieutenant

631
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:27.440
Hargraves informed the ic that they will not dive. At

632
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.639
this point, our four men would have been inside the

633
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:37.440
pipeline for nine hours. At twenty four hundred hours, HSSL

634
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.599
confirmed they will not perform a rescue, and at zero

635
00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:44.679
hours and fifty six minutes, Ralph Seals indicated to the

636
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:48.360
ICP that no divers were willing to perform a dive

637
00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:55.039
if two of Faisal Kurban's sons had both volunteered to

638
00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.280
make a rescue attempt. And we also had Christopher Boudram

639
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.920
state that he himself would have attempted a rescue dive

640
00:41:03.079 --> 00:41:05.760
if he had been allowed. And how is it possible

641
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.920
that this Rolf Seals fellow said that there were no

642
00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:12.679
divers willing to perform a dive. Who is Rolf Seals

643
00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:16.480
and what do we know about him? Ralph Seals was

644
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:22.079
a diving operations supervisor at Heritage Pariah Fuel Trading Company Limited,

645
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:26.320
sister company, and he reported that he was not informed

646
00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:29.679
that four men were trapped in the Pariah pipeline until

647
00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:32.960
hours after he arrived at the accident scene on February

648
00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:36.639
twenty fifth. Seals had been instructed to report to Pariah

649
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:40.360
after the incident had occurred. Seals stated that his role

650
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:43.679
at the site was to coordinate the various dive crews

651
00:41:43.760 --> 00:41:46.480
that were involved in the rescue, not to actually prepare

652
00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:49.360
a rescue plan or risk assessment for the men. But

653
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:54.000
we know now that Pariah's attorney, Gilbert Peterson strongly challenged

654
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:58.119
Seal's statements, asserting that this was not true. Peterson countered

655
00:41:58.159 --> 00:42:03.239
Seal's claim by citing the evidence of Heritage Operations HSSEE manager,

656
00:42:03.519 --> 00:42:06.719
who had testified that Seals was properly briefed about the

657
00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:10.480
incident upon his arrival at Pariah around nine PM. A

658
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.360
man named Fleming Holder, during his testimony, repeatedly stated that

659
00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:18.960
he instructed Seals to prepare a risk assessment for the rescue.

660
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:23.159
This fleming Holder stated that he and Seals began preparing

661
00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.719
a risk assessment shortly after nine PM, which they typed

662
00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:30.280
on his laptop and collaborated on for nearly forty minutes.

663
00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:34.440
By eleven PM, he had seen two separate videos displaying

664
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:38.159
an air tank obstructing the pipeline's interior. They were able

665
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:40.800
to see this from cameras that they had sent down

666
00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:44.639
into the pipeline. Fleming Holder estimated the men could have

667
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.239
survived for approximately six hours inside the pipeline, which means

668
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:51.920
that by eleven PM they would have been out of air.

669
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:56.119
Fleming Holder also said that a crawler was deployed into

670
00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:59.000
the pipeline to attempt to dislodge the air tank, but

671
00:42:59.320 --> 00:43:04.280
this effort was unsuccessful. Flemingholder was repeatedly questioned about the

672
00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:08.039
rescue attempts, but insisted that he only would authorize a

673
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:10.599
rescue if it was safe and there was a guarantee

674
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:13.880
that the rescuer would survive. But we now know it

675
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.360
seems like an incorrect belief that the air tank could

676
00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:21.400
block the pipeline. We heard Christopher testify there was enough

677
00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:24.039
room to move through the pipeline and also pass an

678
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:27.079
air tank back and forth. So again, if there had

679
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:30.119
been someone to debrief Christopher after he came out of

680
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:33.320
the pipeline, or perhaps even keep him updated on the

681
00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:37.480
thought process of the rescue mission, then crucial information might

682
00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:41.199
have not been discarded. So where are we today?

683
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:44.880
We'll be right back after a quick break. If you

684
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:47.400
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685
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686
00:43:58.920 --> 00:44:02.280
So where are we today? Well, we've had a couple

687
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:06.000
of updates over the years, one coming in December of

688
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:10.599
twenty twenty two when Pariah got a tongue lashing from

689
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:14.119
the Commission of Inquiry chair. The man we've heard speak

690
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:18.440
with the British accent throughout some of this testimony, his

691
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:22.000
name is Jerome Lynch. He was upset about the late

692
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.480
submission of documents and said that hundreds of pages of

693
00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:29.079
documents were submitted by Pariah over the weekend and as

694
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.800
late as four am, and these documents had been asked

695
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:36.440
for for months. They included notes from the incident command

696
00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:39.920
team the ICT. Jerome said, quote, it.

697
00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:44.039
Is inconceivable that those who are responsible for providing material

698
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.519
to this inquiry could have not appreciated that this material

699
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:50.840
was likely to be relevant. We get it this weekend,

700
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:55.119
notwithstanding that we have asked for it before on numerous occasions.

701
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:58.440
It may be that, for some reason or other, people

702
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:00.960
thought this was going to be an inquiry that was

703
00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:04.760
conducted at a leisurely pace over several years. Well, that's

704
00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.119
not what's happening. It's never what was happening, which is

705
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:10.960
why I have a very strict timetable on the outset.

706
00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:13.880
And you know, I don't know whose fault this is,

707
00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:15.119
but it's somebody's fault.

708
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:18.599
I also found this clip of Jerome Lynch dressing down

709
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:20.079
one of the prior officials.

710
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:21.239
I play that for you.

711
00:45:22.199 --> 00:45:25.559
Aria's witness, Catherine Balkisun said the company took quick and

712
00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:28.880
urgent action in an attempt to de risk the situation,

713
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.840
but said it was a balancing act to send rescue

714
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:35.079
into the pipeline. She maintained that the conditions inside the

715
00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:38.039
pipeline were unknown, as was the cause of the incident

716
00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:40.800
at the time. I noted that Paria took the decision

717
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:43.960
to ensure no one re entered the area after Christopher

718
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:47.039
Boudron was rescued, despite a relative of one of the

719
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:48.760
divers tating his willingness.

720
00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:54.000
Parrio also took action to say, listen, hold up, are

721
00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:56.599
you are you sure you want to dive in there?

722
00:45:56.679 --> 00:46:00.360
Because these are the risks to someone nice could be lost.

723
00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:06.360
It's a it's a balancing act, right, it might be a.

724
00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:08.960
Different balancing act if it was your father that was

725
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:11.239
in the pipe or your son. I think we take

726
00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:11.719
a break there.

727
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:13.760
No, that's not fair.

728
00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:15.119
Is there an objection to that.

729
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.360
Parrier's attorneys then intervened.

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I don't think it's fair. With the greatest of deference

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to do our tidy business we have we and decide

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representing Parier has been respectful and sensitive to mister Ali

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and all of that. It's only fear. It's only fear

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that we extend the same respecting deference to firious witnesses.

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Mister Lynch then apologized and clarified his statement.

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Of course, I'm very sorry that you are upset by

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this miss but part of the risk analysis must include

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the person being willing to go into a pipe and

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make it take a greater risk. I cannot divorce myself

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from the fact that if it were my son, I

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would take a risk that I might not if it

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were not my son.

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Fast forward about a year and in November of twenty

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and twenty three, the report was finally produced, the one

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that we've been pulling from by the chair Jerome Lynch,

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and he recommended in this report prosecuting Pariah officials for

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corporate manslaughter and charging Colin Piper for OSH Act violations.

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The next update was January sixteenth of this year. Twenty

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and twenty five, Pariah's general manager Mushtak Mohammad, former Terminal

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Operations manager Colin Piper, LMCS director Kazim Ali Senior, Jrum

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guessing Is kazim Ali Junior father, and their respective companies

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faced fifteen charges under the OSH Act. The charges relate

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to alleged failures in safety measures and risk assessments that

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00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:16.559
OSHA claims contributed to the death of four divers. They

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all pleaded not guilty to the charges laid out by

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Chief Inspector Franz Bisbane. It's understandable to want someone to blame,

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and as the manslaughter lawsuit plays out in court, it

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might even be found that there was criminal negligence on

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the part of Pariah. By the way, might I recommend

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00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:46.679
not naming your company pariah a noun that means outcast

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00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:50.320
or a person who is rejected or despised by society.

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But I want to address a narrative that has taken

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hold online and is repeated by content creators nearly across

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the board, and that is that Pariah decided not to

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launch a rescue mission because of the projected monetary cost

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to the company. As far as I've found, there's really

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nothing to support the idea that it was a cost

768
00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:14.480
cutting issue. To me, it seemed to be more about

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00:49:14.639 --> 00:49:17.840
fearing the loss of life of other divers, which makes

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00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:21.639
sense as being something you'd be naturally worried about. Now,

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00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:24.960
this is not to say that there wasn't incompetence displayed

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by Pariah on the day of the disaster, but that's

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my argument that it seems to be more of incompetence

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rather than willful evil. There's also the claim that was

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00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:39.760
repeated by Faisal Curban Sun during the press conference that

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00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:43.039
Pariah closed up the entry to the pipeline, so if

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any of the four divers escaped, they wouldn't be able

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to get out. Nothing in the five hundred plus page

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document I reviewed or any of the testimony supported this.

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And there's one last thing, a sort of copy paste

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00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:00.599
message that seems to get posted in the comments of

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YouTube videos about the Pariah incident. I've seen it a

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handful of times now, and it goes something like this.

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Here are some additional facts. Number One, they were in

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there for four days, and on the third day people

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00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:18.679
were still heard banging on the pipe. Number two, when

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00:50:18.800 --> 00:50:21.519
four days had passed and they were sure they were dead,

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00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.320
they flushed the bodies out of the pipe as quickly

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00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:28.079
as possible. This damaged the bodies and flooded any air

790
00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:30.920
bubbles remaining, so if the men were alive, then the

791
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:35.320
flushing operation probably killed them. Number Three, the bodies were

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00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:38.679
retrieved in secret and placed in boxes to disguise them,

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and then snuck out via a back entrance while the

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00:50:41.559 --> 00:50:45.199
family members were left waiting. Number four, the families were

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00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.519
never informed that the men had died and that the

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bodies had been retrieved. They had to find out via

797
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:54.880
news programs. Number five. No one from Pariah ever met

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00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:58.920
with the families. They were just outright ignored. Number six

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00:50:59.119 --> 00:51:01.760
Chris tried to check himself out of the hospital, but

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was restrained and forcefully sedated on the orders of Pariah,

801
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:08.280
who feared he was planning on mounting his own rogue

802
00:51:08.360 --> 00:51:13.880
mission operation in parentheses. He later confirmed he was number seven.

803
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:17.400
When first informed of the accident, the first thing Pariah

804
00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.360
managers asked was how much downtime there would be. That

805
00:51:20.639 --> 00:51:24.880
was their first and only concern. Number eight. The company

806
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:28.400
has an extensive history of corruption. Its managers are in

807
00:51:28.519 --> 00:51:30.920
bed with the government and they use the company to

808
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:34.639
do underhand business so they can steal tax money. When

809
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:38.400
you ask the person who posts these comments for sources

810
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:42.320
for their claims, they usually respond by saying that you

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00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:47.440
just have to believe them. Unfortunately, these types of unsubstantiated

812
00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:50.920
claims do nothing to help the victims and in fact,

813
00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:55.440
only further hurt the case against Pariah. As people find

814
00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:58.360
out that these facts are not true, they can tend

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00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:01.519
to disbelieve Some of the truth to the story, and

816
00:52:01.639 --> 00:52:04.039
this is one of those stories that's so bizarre that

817
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:07.039
you really don't have to add anything to it. If

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00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.679
you see these comments online, I would ask you to

819
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:13.559
just ignore them. And if anybody posts these comments without

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00:52:13.639 --> 00:52:18.239
sources in the comments section on Spotify, I'll be deleting them.

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While the Pariah disaster took the lives of four men,

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00:52:23.079 --> 00:52:27.440
there was amazingly one man who made it out, Christopher Boudrum.

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00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:30.360
And while today he lives as a free man, the

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00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:33.679
quality of his life has forever changed. The first three

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00:52:33.800 --> 00:52:36.360
days out of the pipeline, he spent just trying to

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00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:38.280
clean up the oil off of his skin.

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Oil on my skin for treat is treat? Did I

828
00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:43.280
trying to take oil off my skin?

829
00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:43.719
Somor?

830
00:52:43.840 --> 00:52:47.719
I don't have the the the chemicals to take them

831
00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:51.519
oil off on my skin? When I set it up

832
00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:53.039
on them, I was able to tell my wife what

833
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:56.480
they bring the getty oil off on me, oil all

834
00:52:56.559 --> 00:52:58.760
up inside my nostrils, all in my signos.

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00:53:00.119 --> 00:53:03.840
From an article on the website CNC three dot co

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00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:07.679
or reporter went to meet with Christopher more than a

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00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.440
year after the disaster that claimed the lives of his

838
00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:13.960
friends in speaking to them, he said, quote, how can

839
00:53:14.039 --> 00:53:16.559
I teach my daughter to swim when I afraid to

840
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:19.440
go in the water. It's difficult even going to the

841
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.440
beach since this happened. My daughter begs me to go

842
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:25.440
to the beach because it's a stone's throw away. But

843
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:28.360
anytime I go there, I see berths number five and

844
00:53:28.480 --> 00:53:31.800
number six. My daughter is going on four this year.

845
00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:35.039
How can I properly play with her? How can I

846
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:37.159
teach her to swim if I afraid to go in

847
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:41.920
the water. Christopher admitted to the reporter that he's been

848
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:46.320
on a downward spiral since the accident. Quote, Sometimes I

849
00:53:46.519 --> 00:53:49.960
just sitting down and I just get a flashback. Sometimes

850
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:51.679
in the middle of the night, I jump out of

851
00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.320
my bed with cold sweating, waking up my wife, disturbing

852
00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:58.599
her sleeping whenever she's home sleeping with me. In addition

853
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:02.119
to nightmares, Chris First said he's also plagued by what

854
00:54:02.239 --> 00:54:06.320
he calls daymares. He said, quote, it's like a tea bag.

855
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:10.280
Every time you dip it, it's getting darker and darker

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