The Caribbean diving disaster was an incident in February 2022 in which a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber.
[1] An investigation by the government of Trinidad and Tobago concluded that the deaths of the divers were due to "gross ... and consequently criminal" negligence.
[3] On 25 February 2022, at around 15:00, five divers became trapped in a Paria Fuel Trading Company oil pipeline near Pointe-à-Pierre while making repairs to the pipe.
[4] Unbeknownst to the divers, differential pressure had been created when the pipe was cleared of oil nearly a month earlier.
[11] Further external attempts to save the men were reportedly blocked by Paria with arguments being made that the divers could not be rescued safely.