JOSEPH HENRY left the Forensic Science Centre (FSC) building eyes glazed as he hit his hands together in anguish five times, then held his head, looked to the skies and let out a cry of grief.

He had just seen the body of his beloved son, Yusuf, lying on a trolley.

Henry did not recognise the battered, swollen and oil-slicked body on the trolley. He knew it was his son only because he had distinctive tattoos.

Henry's trauma was similarly felt by relatives of the other two divers, Kazim Ali and Fyzal Kurban, whose bodies were also at the centre awaiting a positive identification before autopsies could be done.

On February 25, Christopher Boodram, Ali, Henry, Rishi Nagassar and Kurban were working on a 36-inch underwater crude oil pipeline in Pointe-a-Pierre when there was a sudden inrush of water. All five were sucked into the pipeline, with Boodram being the only survivor. Up to press time, Nagassar's body was yet to be recovered.

For the three families, this was fresh trauma which came after five-days of fear, hope and doubt as they held out the ultimately futile hope that their loved ones could somehow have survived being sucked into the pipeline.

Henry sat on a bench, cried out again, then rubbed his head. After some minutes of silence, he got up, spoke to relatives and then faced reporters who respectfully waited nearby.

He told Newsday of the mind-numbing shock of seeing his son's body. "I can't say I kept my composure inside," he admitted.

[caption id="attachment_942478" align="alignnone" width="1024"] NO COMMENT: Catherine Ali, left, leaves the centre after identifying the body of her relative, diver Kazim Ali on Tuesday. -[/caption]

"As I walked in there, they (workers at the centre) warned me, they warned us (the divers' relatives). They let us know how bad it would be. The people in there warned us about what we are going to see...they warned us.

"I walked in and said, 'That is Yusuf there.' My son has tattoos on parts of his body, his chest, neck, arms. The first one I saw was on his chest. It was marked "outlaw." That's the first one I saw. I'm accustomed seeing it. I know for a surety, that it was my son.

"When I watched the face (pause), that's not my son's face. Black like night and disfigured. When I say disfigured, I mean like...faceless."

Henry said that as traumatising as the experience was for him and the loved ones of the other two men, at least there can at least be closure.

"Yusuf is dead. May God bless his soul. All the other gentlemen, may God bless their souls too, and may the families and especially the children of these dead men be protected."

He had a message to the country.

"I'm warning allyuh. The rain fell on my house today, but tomorrow it could fall on yours.

[caption id="attachment_942479" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Celisha Kurban speaks with reporters after she identified the body of her husband, diver Fyzal Kurban. -[/caption]

"If we stay separate and hateful as a nation, we will die one by one. Friday it (the tragedy) happened. Saturday