t's been exactly two weeks since Luke Seabrook died in a workplace accident at Nova Scotia Power's Annapolis Tidal Power Plant.
For his family, this mourning period has been especially painful because of the awful way in which he died.
Seabrook, a 39-year-old commercial diver from Dartmouth, was underwater inspecting the gates controlling the flow of the powerful tides of the Annapolis River, when something went terribly wrong, fast.
"I was told he went down and within one minute he said, 'Pull me up,' and they lost communications on the microphone. They didn't talk to him after that point," said Garth Seabrook, the man's younger brother.
Garth Seabrook has been searching for answers since his brother's death. He has spoken with members of the surface team — the backup diver and a supervisory diver.
Garth Seabrook was told they were helpless, wanting desperately to rescue Seabrook.
"They couldn't actually pull hard enough to get him out, so they tied him up so he couldn't go any further. And apparently the secondary diver went to jump in but they would not allow him to because they figured the same thing was going to happen to him, obviously," Garth Seabrook told CBC News.
He said for safety's sake, the team had to wait 30 to 45 minutes for the tides to equalize on both sides of the gate. That's when the backup diver went down. See full story : http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/diver-luke-seabrook-died-after-nova-scotia-power-dam-gate-left-open-brother-says-1.3172533
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