It's been a month since the four divers per­ished in­side a 30-inch di­am­e­ter pipeline at Paria's Berth No. 6 yet the lone sur­vivor Christo­pher Boodram re­mains haunt­ed, un­able to sleep and eat prop­er­ly.

His friend Michelle Ho­sein, who set up a Go­fundme ac­count on March 15, to help pay for Boodram's ex­pens­es, ex­plained his predica­ment in a Face­book video.

Both Boodram and Ho­sein at­tend the New Tes­ta­ment Church of God. 

She said:" We de­cid­ed to open a Go­fundme to as­sist Christo­pher in his hour of need. The fact that Christo­pher sur­vived this hor­ri­ble dis­as­ter is a mir­a­cle. He called on Je­sus and prayed while he was in that pipeline. He is a liv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny."

Ho­sein ex­plained that Boodram's three chil­dren were on­ly now re­al­iz­ing that their fa­ther could have died, adding that they too need­ed coun­selling.

 " It is un­like­ly that Christo­pher will be able to re­turn to div­ing in the near term as he needs ur­gent psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port. He is un­able to sleep and eat well. He can­not for­get the night­mare. The psy­cho­log­i­cal im­pact is so great that he re­quires ad­di­tion­al psy­cho­log­i­cal as­sis­tance to what he is re­ceiv­ing now," she ex­plained.

Ho­sein added, "In ad­di­tion to med­ical ex­pens­es and care, Christo­pher has un­known le­gal ex­pens­es."

She said Boodram is seek­ing in­de­pen­dent, in­ter­na­tion­al­ly ac­cred­it­ed ex­perts and Health and Safe­ty pro­fes­sion­als to tes­ti­fy on his be­half.

" This is sep­a­rate from the par­tic­i­pa­tion and stress­es of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry. Since Christo­pher gave his per­son­al ac­count, nu­mer­ous mem­bers of the pub­lic and even peo­ple abroad want to as­sist," Ho­sein said, ex­plain­ing this is why a Go­fundme ac­count was es­tab­lished.

" It is with fer­vent help and care that com­pas­sion­ate peo­ple now have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to help Christo­pher and Can­dy. We want to sup­port Christo­pher and God will give him the vic­to­ry in Je­sus's name," Ho­sein added.

Up to mid­day on Fri­day, the Go­fundme had on­ly re­ceived $17, 611, which rep­re­sent­ed three per cent of the $700,000 need­ed for ex­pens­es.

Boodram has spo­ken out on­ly once his the or­deal and has blamed Paria Fu­el Trad­ing com­pa­ny for the deaths of his friends. He said crim­i­nal char­ges should be prof­fered against the com­pa­ny which de­clared his col­leagues dead, and the Coast Guard, which pre­vent­ed res­cue ef­forts.

Ho­sein and his fel­low divers Fyzal Kur­ban, Rishi Na­gas­sar, Kaz­im Ali Jr and Yusuf Hen­ry were do­ing un­der­wa­ter main­te­nance on a 30-inch di­am­e­ter pipeline at No 36 sealine ris­er on the Berth 6 off­shore plat­form at Pointe-a-Pierre around 2:45 pm on Feb­ru­ary 25, when they were sucked in­to the pipeline.

Boodram said they had just re­moved the ex­pan­sion plug when the suc­tion oc­curred. Since the in­ci­dent, calls have been made to reg­u­lar­ize the div­ing in­dus­try. The Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health Agency has been crit­i­cized for not is­su­ing im­me­di­ate pro­hi­bi­tion no­tices.

The Bu­reau of Stan­dards has al­so been crit­i­cized for not com­plet­ing con­sul­ta­tion on vol­un­tary div­ing stan­dards. Sev­er­al div­ing com­pa­nies have been ac­cused of ex­ploit­ing divers by not prop­er­ly equip­ping them and us­ing scu­ba divers for com­mer­cial div­ing projects. The Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union, the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice and the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty led by Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der have all called for jus­tice, hold­ing can­dle­light vig­ils across sev­er­al parts of the coun­try. Calls were made and a pe­ti­tion was signed for Paria ex­ec­u­tives to step down but this nev­er hap­pened.

A Com­mis­sion of En­quiry is now be­ing arranged and the OS­HA and the po­lice are con­tin­u­ing sep­a­rate in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Any­one want­i­ng to con­tribute to Boodram's ex­pens­es can vis­it http://vis­it https://fund­met­nt.com/cam­paign/help-sup­port-christo­pher-boodram-lone-div­ing-tragedy-sur­vivor

Re­porter: RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA