FROM RESCUE TO RECOVERY

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From rescue to recovery. It's the strategy to be employed by Well Services Petroleum Company Limited and Heritage Petroleum Company Limited, after five days of search efforts to locate Pete Phillip, following Sunday's tragic accident at sea. For his wife however, hope is still alive. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00Wells Services Petroleum Company Limited says, after an extensive and thorough effort in

00:05collaboration with Heritage Petroleum Company Limited, the difficult decision to transition

00:11from search and rescue operations to a search and recovery phase was made.

00:17In a release this afternoon, Wells Services explained that given the length of time that

00:21has passed and the challenging maritime conditions, they regretfully determined that the possibility

00:27of survival may be unlikely at this time.

00:31For Pete Phillips' wife, however, hope is still alive.

00:34It's been a good like five days, do you support that decision to just start looking to retrieve

00:41his body?

00:42I would say no, but reality.

00:45Do you still have hopes that they would find him alive?

00:49Well, I hope so.

00:52They're just coming in.

00:54It's almost the same thing over and over.

00:58They're looking, they're continuing to look.

01:00Mrs. Phillips and relatives were invited to a meeting with Wells Services and other authorities

01:06today, where they were given the latest update.

01:09How did they explain it to you?

01:11They just let us know that they're not looking for, they're looking for a body.

01:16They wouldn't really want that, but you would prefer that over having no closure?

01:21Yeah, it's better.

01:23At least it will give you some kind of peace of mind to really know this happened and the

01:30body recovered.

01:32And you ain't get nothing at all, I'm just searching.

01:35Pete Phillips is the only person who remains unaccounted for after the partial collapse

01:40of Wells Services Reg 110 around 3 a.m. on December 2nd.

01:45One other person was injured in the incident.

01:48Did they talk to you all about any kind of compensation or anything?

01:52Well, so far the HR has called and I'm keeping in touch and see if I can purchase anything.

01:59If I need anything, just call.

02:01That is it so far.

02:03Candace and Pete are expecting their fifth child.

02:07You might want to name him after his dad.

02:09Oh, you can re-sign, yeah.

02:11I will sign that after today.

02:13A release from the Ministry of Energy says international experts are due to arrive today

02:18to assist in assessing and advising on the continuing operations.

02:23Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.

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