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Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE PIPELINE: Hear all the revelations from The Daily Mail's groundbreaking podcast investigating the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster
Every Thursday, Mail reporter Isabelle Stanley will bring you all the revelations from her groundbreaking investigation into the Caribbean diving disaster - on brand new podcast series, Pipeline. In February 2022, Kazim Ali Jr, Yusuf Henry, Fyzal Kurban, Rishi Nagassar, and Christopher Boodram were sent to fix an underwater oil pipeline just off the coast of Trinidad. Just as they were about to finish, they were violently sucked into the 30-inch pipe they were repairing and dragged hundreds of feet beneath the sea. The men were professional divers, working for a contractor commissioned by Paria Fuel Trading Company, one arm of Trinidad's state-owned oil company. One man, Christopher Boodram, managed to drag himself out over the course of three agonizing hours, but attempts to rescue the other four were repeatedly blocked. They were left to die. Trapped deep underwater, with tiny pockets of air, their autopsies revealed they didn't die quickly – one of the men may have been alive in those unimaginable conditions for up to 39 hours. Travelling to Trinidad for a first-of-its-kind investigation into the disaster, this explosive real-time podcast will uncover a story of corporate negligence, betrayal, and greed. The six-part series explores allegations that rescue efforts were actively obstructed, examines how safety failures were ignored, and unearths close connections between Trinidad's political elite and oil executives. It will also feature an exclusive interview with the disaster's only survivor, Christopher Boodram, along with GoPro audio from inside the pipe, capturing the men's final, harrowing hours. Pipeline, a Daily Mail podcast, is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all major podcast platforms now.
Daily Mail
22-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE PIPELINE: My son spent his last moments gasping for air in an underwater oil pipe - this is my story
The Mail have launched a new six-part investigative podcast series into the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster. This real-time investigation sees reporter Isabelle Stanley travel to Trinidad and Tobago to interview the victims' families and the tragedy's sole survivor. Travelling to the nation for a first-of-its-kind investigation into the disaster, this explosive podcast will uncover a story of corporate negligence, betrayal, and greed. Listen here The Tragedy In February 2022, five men were sent to repair a leaking section of underwater pipe just off the coast of Trinidad. What should have been a routine job for the experienced divers turned deadly when something went terribly wrong and, in less than a second, they were sucked inside the 30-inch pipe they were repairing. Despite being dragged hundreds of feet through the pipe beneath the sea, the men survived the initial impact. They were scattered throughout the pipe, but managed to group together, breathing in tiny pockets of air that had been sucked in with them. One of the men, Christopher Boodram, managed to drag himself out over the course of three agonising hours, but attempts to rescue the other four were repeatedly blocked. They were left to die. And they didn't die quickly. Autopsies later revealed that one of the divers, Kazim Ali Jr, may have been alive for as long as 39 hours inside the pipe The tragedy sparked a national scandal in Trinidad, and billboards demanding justice still line street corners to this day. A Father's Pain In the first episode of Pipeline, Stanley spoke to the father of one of the divers, Kazim Ali Sr, who has spent the three years since the tragedy hunting for answers. Kazim Ali Sr is in a uniquely terrible position. He not only lost his son in the tragedy -but he also owned the business that all the divers worked for, LMCS. LMCS had been hired by Paria, the state-owned oil company, to repair the pipe. 'I think about it 25 hours a day', the grieving father told podcast host Stanley. 'It's never out of my mind. Learning he'd been alive for 39 hours, that was the killer.' The first two episodes of Pipeline, explaining the tragedy, featuring exclusive interviews with the families of the victims and the sole survivor of the disaster, Christopher Boodram, are available now. PIPELINE The six-part podcast series will explore allegations that efforts to rescue the other four men were actively obstructed, and will unearth close connections between Trinidad's political elite and oil executives. Travelling to the nation for a first-of-its-kind investigation into the disaster, this explosive podcast will uncover a story of corporate negligence, betrayal, and greed.
