Sucked into an oil pipe | The Paria Diving Disaster
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This is the story of the Paria diving tragedy. 5 men were sucked into an oil pipeline and only 1 came out alive. This accident had a tragic outcome because a...
  • OsrsNeedsF2PEnglish
    9436·
    7 months ago

    Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had ‘no legal responsibility to rescue the men’. Further external attempts to save the men were reportedly blocked by Paria. In November 2023, the Commission of Enquiry found that “Paria’s negligence could be characterised as gross negligence and consequently criminal”. They recommended that the Director of Public Prosecutions “consider charging Paria with what is commonly known as Corporate Manslaughter.”

    Looks like nothing came from this… yet?

    A GoPro camera was recovered from one of the deceased divers, Kazim Ali Jr. Audio recording from the camera shows that all five men were alive after being sucked into the oil pipe, and in the audio they are heard praying and comforting each other.

    This is why all of the interclass hatred and debates are stupid at the end of the day. When that’s you, are you really gonna care that you died beside a Tankie or a Confederate supporter? We’re slowly getting worse, while the rich literally let us die to save a couple million pounds.

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      473·
      7 months ago

      Given that both of your examples are commonly authoritarian if not outright fascist in ideology, I’m not exactly sure they’re too interested in class solidarity?

      Glad you can grandstand but “you and the inbred moron who voted for the people who enabled things to get this bad are both getting dicked, so you should accept their opinions as respectable” is not the slam dunk argument you think it is.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        7 months ago

        All of these types are the ones who think they’re going to be running the show. The end goal is just power to them, everyone likes to joke that people just think they’re future millionaires, while these types just think they’re future leaders getting to send their enemies to death camps.

      • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 months ago

        So at most they’ll get a couple million in fines that the company had already budgeted for.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
          3·
          7 months ago

          The report says that’s because they could not find evidence to attribute the charge to any person, and figureheads cannot be imprisoned just for a crime of their company in the primitive laws of this very small island country in the Caribbean, since nothing like this has happened in that country before, apparently. The report is sort of “exploiting” the existing rule that corporations may be accused as perpetrators to accommodate for the punishment of this crime to actually be able to convict and punish; the charge of “corporate manslaughter” has never happened before either. c.f. https://hfpsc.org/corporate-homicide-manslaughter/