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EXCLUSIVEFive men trapped in a 30-inch oil pipeline deep under the sea, air running out and left to die: Everything to know about America's No.1 podcastBy ISABELLE STANLEY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 19:26 BST, 20 June 2025 | Updated: 19:27 BST, 20 June 2025
Yet three years on, not one person has been held accountable. Neither Christopher nor the families of those killed have received a penny in compensation.
The AutopsiesIn the hours after Christopher escaped from the pipe, waiting volunteer divers tried to communicate with the men still trapped inside. They did so by tapping out emergency signals onto the pipe's metal sides and waiting to hear if the men tapped back. They did.
In fact, the volunteers could still hear the men deep inside the pipe in the early hours of Saturday morning - almost 12 hours after they were sucked in.
But despite this clear proof of life, and the agonies the men must have been experiencing in their hellish prison, Paria repeatedly blocked volunteer divers from staging a rescue. They insisted it was too dangerous.
The dead divers were so swollen and covered in oil that they were almost unrecognizable to the family members who went to the mortuary to identify them.
But most horrifying of all, their autopsies confirmed what the tapping signals had suggested - the men had not died quickly.
In fact, one of the men, Kazim Ali Jr, may have been alive for up to 39 hours in those unimaginable conditions: trapped and terrified in the dark, desperately hoping rescuers would arrive soon.Past accidentsForty years before the four men died, one of their fathers was killed while working on exactly the same stretch of pipe.
In 1985, Ramjohn Kurban, Fyzal’s father, was working to recommission the pipe in which his son would later die, when gases escaped from the line and caught fire. There was a huge explosion that killed 14 workers.
Fast forward four decades and in December 2021, just three months before the accident, Christopher, the sole survivor of the ‘Pipeline’ tragedy, and Rishi Nagassar - who would perish in it - were both involved in another incident.
They were working on a nearby gas line - also owned and operated by Paria - when it caught on fire, sending flames spewing across the platform.
They told Paria what happened, but Christopher said the accident was ‘swept under the rug’ without investigation.https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tions.html
