29 Jul 2025

Podcast Tuesday: Pipeline: Left to Die & The Retrievals Season Two

From Afternoons, 1:45 pm on 29 July 2025

In 2022, while making repairs to a undersea pipe off the coast of Trinidad, four professional divers got sucked hundreds of metres into a 76cm- wide pipe full of oil.

The story of what happened next has been made into a podcast called Pipeline: Left to Die (Daily Mail)

Ximena Smith reviews this and The Retrievals Season Two (NY Times and Serial Podcast)

Photo of some of the professional divers who were sucked into a 75cm-bore oil pipeline off the Caribbean island of Trinidad in early 2022

Photo: Divernet