The man­age­ment of Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park has re­it­er­at­ed that div­ing from the park’s jet­ty is strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed fol­low­ing the re­cent ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing First Of­fi­cer Chris­ton Bat­ters­by.

“This in­ci­dent serves as a stark re­minder of the po­ten­tial dan­gers as­so­ci­at­ed with div­ing or jump­ing from the Pi­geon Point jet­ty,” the park’s man­age­ment said in a state­ment. “De­spite its pic­turesque ap­pear­ance, the wa­ter depth and un­der­wa­ter con­di­tions around the jet­ty can be un­pre­dictable and haz­ardous.”

The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly and park of­fi­cials con­firmed that Bat­ters­by has made “sig­nif­i­cant progress in his re­cov­ery” and ex­tend­ed their “best wish­es for his full and swift re­cu­per­a­tion.”

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) al­so ad­dressed the ac­ci­dent, re­fut­ing me­dia re­ports that Bat­ters­by is paral­ysed. “Our most re­cent up­date con­firms that our broth­er, First Of­fi­cer Bat­ters­by, is for­tu­nate­ly not paral­ysed as re­port­ed by some me­dia hous­es,” TTAL­PA stat­ed on Tues­day.

Bat­ters­by, 27, was in­jured on March 15 af­ter div­ing from the jet­ty. Po­lice re­ports in­di­cate he struck his head on an un­known ob­ject, lost con­scious­ness, and was pulled from the wa­ter by beach­go­ers who per­formed CPR. He was tak­en to Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

TTAL­PA said it has been in “con­tin­u­ous con­tact with Chris­ton’s fam­i­ly, seek­ing up­dates on his progress and ex­tend­ing the As­so­ci­a­tion’s and its mem­bers’ un­wa­ver­ing sup­port.” The as­so­ci­a­tion thanked the pub­lic, med­ical teams, and those who as­sist­ed at the scene for their ef­forts.

Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park urged vis­i­tors to re­spect safe­ty guide­lines, stat­ing, “We con­tin­ue to pri­ori­tise the safe­ty of all vis­i­tors and will con­tin­ue to re­view and en­hance safe­ty mea­sures as nec­es­sary.”