Kaz­im Ali Jr, 36, one of the four divers killed in a trag­ic mishap at Paria’s Berth No 6 seabed pipeline in Pointe-a-Pierre re­cent­ly, was laid to rest ear­li­er to­day fol­low­ing a fu­ner­al ser­vice held un­der Mus­lim rites at his home in Gopaul Lands, Mara­bel­la.

Among those de­liv­er­ing eu­lo­gies at the small pri­vate cer­e­mo­ny were his sis­ter Kate and wid­ow Jamie.

Christo­pher Boodram, the on­ly div­er to sur­vive the mishap, was among the mourn­ers.

Fol­low­ing the ser­vice, the cortege went to LM­CS, the com­pa­ny owned by Ali's fam­i­ly, which was con­tract­ed to do un­der­wa­ter main­te­nance work on the 30-inch pipeline, on Tarou­ba Road, then to the San Fer­nan­do Yacht Club where the div­er, an avid sailor, kept his boat.

The fu­ner­al was orig­i­nal­ly due to take place at 1 pm on Fri­day but was post­poned due to an ad­min­is­tra­tive blun­der on the death cer­tifi­cate. One hour be­fore the fu­ner­al, the fam­i­ly was is­sued a no­tice say­ing the fu­ner­al had been post­poned.

Ali Jr, fond­ly known as Bean, was the son of Kaz­im Ali Snr, the own­er of LM­CS. He had been cap­tur­ing footage of the pipeline when tragedy struck.