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LMCS: Dive team made decision to remove plug from Paria pipeline

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The No 6 Berth platform in Pointe-a-Pierre, where divers lost their lives after being stuck in the 30-inch diameter seabed pipeline.

The No 6 Berth platform in Pointe-a-Pierre, where divers lost their lives after being stuck in the 30-inch diameter seabed pipeline.

RISHI RAGOONATH

by AM­BI­KA JA­GAS­SARS­INGH

LM­CS su­per­vi­sor Dex­ter Guer­ra says the de­ci­sion to re­move the in­flat­able plug from a Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny pipeline was made by his dive team for con­ve­nience.

The re­moval of the plug was found to be the cause of the dead­ly Feb­ru­ary 25 ac­ci­dent in which four mem­bers of the LM­CS dive team lost their lives in an in­de­pen­dent re­port com­mis­sioned by the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Health and Safe­ty Au­thor­i­ty.

Guer­ra was tes­ti­fy­ing be­fore the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry set up to in­ves­ti­gate the ac­ci­dent on Thurs­day morn­ing.

At­tor­ney for Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, se­nior coun­sel, Gilbert Pe­ter­son grilled Guer­ra about whether or not he saw the re­moval of the plugs on the tool­box form, to which he re­luc­tant­ly agreed that he had not.

Pe­ter­son asked him if he had made LM­CS own­er Kaz­im Ali Se­nior, aware of this, to which he al­so said, “No, I did not.”

Pe­ter­son ref­er­enced an in­ci­dent on Feb­ru­ary 17, when Guer­ra was de­mot­ed for not fol­low­ing Paria’s pro­ce­dures and asked, “the plug was prob­a­bly re­moved on the 25 be­cause it was more con­ve­nient to do it at that stage than to try to do it af­ter you in­stall the ris­er?”

Guer­ra then said no dis­cus­sion came up dur­ing the tool­box meet­ing be­fore work start­ed on Feb­ru­ary 25 about re­mov­ing the plug.

“No dis­cus­sions were made on re­mov­ing the plug, noth­ing hap­pened on that. The method state­ment would have to be changed right? How we were go­ing to re­trieve it? How were we sup­posed to reach it?”

Pe­ter­son then asked if the de­ci­sion to re­move the plug was due to Guer­ra be­ing un­able to “fig­ure out how to reach it from on top.”

Guer­ra said if this was not done, LM­CS would have found it dif­fi­cult to re­move the plug.

“I feel we would...if we did that, we might have had to low­er down some­body with the crane in­side the pipe to re­move it.”

On Feb­ru­ary 17, Guer­ra was de­mot­ed for re­mov­ing a barge with­out au­tho­riza­tion by Ali Snr, just about a week be­fore the fa­tal in­ci­dent. His rea­son­ing for re­mov­ing the barge then was that it was safer to do so ear­ly in the day. Guer­ra said re­mov­ing the barge be­fore get­ting a per­mit to work from Paria was an es­tab­lished pro­ce­dure.


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