Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Lim­it­ed (Paria) says op­er­a­tions to lo­cate the fourth div­er con­tin­ued through­out the night how­ev­er they have not been able to lo­cate the body. A press re­lease is­sued by Paria stat­ed that the use of re­mote­ly op­er­at­ed cam­eras to try and lo­cate the body were not suc­cess­ful.

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from Paria:

Paria Fu­el Trad­ing Lim­it­ed (Paria) ad­vis­es that op­er­a­tions con­tin­ued through­out the night (Tues­day March 1st) to re­cov­er the fourth div­er Rishi Na­gas­sar who was part of an LM­CS Lim­it­ed crew con­duct­ing un­der­wa­ter main­te­nance at #36 Sealine ris­er on Berth #6 at Paria’s fa­cil­i­ty in Pointe-a-Pierre.

Giv­en the com­plex­i­ty of this op­er­a­tion and the many vari­ables to be con­sid­ered, in­clud­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal chal­lenges, Paria has ded­i­cat­ed sig­nif­i­cant re­sources to en­sur­ing that we re­cov­er Mr. Na­gas­sar’s body re­spon­si­bly and re­spect­ful­ly.

Through­out the night con­sul­ta­tion meet­ings were held with oth­er tech­ni­cal ex­perts to re­view al­ter­na­tive meth­ods, while en­sur­ing that the body is re­cov­ered. We have at­tempt­ed on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions, us­ing re­mote­ly op­er­at­ed cam­eras to try and lo­cate the body, but have not been suc­cess­ful.

As we com­mence the next phase in the re­cov­ery process, we are mind­ful of the care­ful and re­spect­ful re­trieval of the body in a man­ner that min­i­mizes any im­pact to the en­vi­ron­ment. This in­ci­dent has tak­en sig­nif­i­cant toll on the fam­i­lies and loved ones of LM­CS em­ploy­ees who were in­volved, and we ex­tend our deep­est con­do­lences to them at this ex­treme­ly dif­fi­cult time.

We have com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing fam­i­ly mem­bers with coun­selling sup­port dur­ing this time. As a Com­pa­ny, we are al­so very mind­ful of the un­due pain and an­guish that can be caused when spec­u­la­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion per­sist in the pub­lic do­main. We take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to urge the pub­lic and in­ter­est groups to be thought­ful of pre­sent­ing or shar­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion to the var­i­ous me­dia plat­forms.

We al­so give the as­sur­ance that we will con­tin­ue to pro­vide up­dates, first to the fam­i­lies, and to the pub­lic, on the progress of the re­cov­ery op­er­a­tion as new in­for­ma­tion comes to hand. We con­tin­ue to ex­press our deep­est sym­pa­thy with the fam­i­lies of the divers in this time of pro­found loss. Our thought and prayers are with them