00:00 Christopher Boudram has taken his therapist's advice and is spending time
00:05 in New York with relatives away from his home, his wife and children and
00:11 basically anything that reminds him of wrangling with death 55 feet under sea
00:18 level encased in a 30-inch pipeline.
00:22 I've been trying all kind of different meditations, breathing. Nothing seems to be working out.
00:36 But the tragic events of February 25th 2022 and pleas and the final cries of
00:44 his four fellow divers or brothers as he calls them still haunt his mind.
00:51 It's every single day on my mind. Every single night I have nightmares.
01:00 It's so fresh in my mind like if it happened just yesterday.
01:08 So anything much hasn't really changed.
01:13 Boudram's profile picture on his WhatsApp is that final picture the five took before the fatal dive.
01:20 Smiling faces all oblivious of the ordeal ahead and the days of entrapment before four would take their final breaths.
01:31 I don't think I could ever put back on my wetsuit.
01:35 He spent his day anticipating what would come out of the final sitting of the Paria Commission of Inquiry.
01:41 I'm happy that the stage has come to a close, but I'm still skeptical because I mean, they said this would have been an open inquiry.
01:57 So the public and everyone will sit here and see and should be transparent.
02:05 How come now with the results the transparency go?
02:10 Boudram tells us it is unfair to him and the families of the fallen divers.
02:16 I wish that it would have been public before it reached into the president's office.
02:25 You know, because this was supposed to be transparent and clear.
02:31 But now these are documents going to the president's office, not implying anything, but at the end of the day, it's implied that it could be tampered with, it could be changed.
02:45 I don't know what the legality is in it, but then she could choose not to make it public.
02:56 He thinks his evidence was critical, along with the audio recording of the five in the pipeline.
03:03 If I didn't come out of that pipeline, the world wouldn't know the truth.
03:08 That audio was detrimental in this whole thing, because not only were I saying, "Now there's proof,"
03:17 but it would have been blamed on us, the five divers in the pipe, and they would have just closed the case.
03:26 They would have said negligence by us and just closed off that case as negligence in the divers.
03:37 For Rishi Nagasar's widow, Vanessa Kusi, she replaced the cherished moments day after day.
03:44 The hopefulness of the couple's four-year-old son Nashik breaks her heart.
03:50 He would tell me, "Here's daddy playing with him," and he still fantasized.
03:55 Well, I would say, "Fantasize," because I ask him, "Where's your daddy?"
03:59 And he would say, "He's right there. He would play with me with my toys."
04:03 And I said, "Okay, okay." And then he would say things like, "Daddy says he loves you."
04:10 She spends both milestone and quiet moments alike at her husband's nearby gravesite
04:16 or at the Cuva South constituency office where trees were planted in memory of the four divers.
04:23 And she even visits the sea.
04:25 Each time, Vanessa takes flowers, remembering Valentine's Day just two weeks before the accident,
04:32 when Rishi showered her with gifts.
04:35 And I said, "You're buying so much flowers. And I told you not to buy so much flowers.
04:40 Why are you buying so much flowers? It's too much flowers."
04:43 He said, "It's too much for you, but one day you'll be giving me flowers."
04:47 And I told him, I said, "No, I would never give a man flowers."
04:51 And we joked and we laughed about it.
04:54 And he said, "Yes, one day you'll give me flowers."
04:57 He said, "Wait and you'll see." And I was like, "Never."
05:00 And, you know, every time I put that flower, I tear and pat her face.
05:07 It's these personal moments of grief, she says, that Paria Fuel Trading Company do not recognize.
05:15 This accident at Paria had made history throughout the world.
05:18 People from all over the country, or anywhere you name it,
05:22 they would call the families to at least give prayers or some way of comfort or something.
05:28 And the people at the personnel, they did not even give a phone call to the families.
05:33 And I think that this is very, it's a big disrespect to us.
05:40 Let me speak for myself. It's a big disrespect for me.
05:45 Because they, the companies, made a lot of money, millions of dollars, because of these divers.
05:53 And at least we need justice in some way or the other.
05:57 Relieved the inquiry is now over, Vanessa, the recently elected Kuva West Roystonia councillor,
06:05 knows their journey is far from over.
06:08 We will fight till the end. We will fight. We're not, I am not going to give up.
06:15 I'm going to fight for my husband.
06:17 Even with her daily struggles to cope emotionally,
06:21 to suddenly become the sole breadwinner for her family,
06:25 to turn away from grocery items she used to buy,
06:28 settling for whatever her pocket permits.
06:32 Above everything, Vanessa tells us, she wants the truth to be known.
06:37 I wish it can be public. At least hand it over to the family as well, get a final report.
06:45 Because they owe us some, at least, some sort of, remember this is our husbands,
06:53 they are dealing with our breadwinner, you have been taken from us.
06:57 They didn't want to die, a tragedy happened, and Paria did not lift a finger.
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