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TIL of the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster where a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them

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