A Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) pi­lot may be par­a­lyzed af­ter a div­ing ac­ci­dent at Pi­geon Point, To­ba­go, yes­ter­day.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia Chris­ton Bat­ters­by, 27, of Mara­cas Val­ley, St Joseph, was with friends at the Pi­geon Point Jet­ty around mid­day when he dove in­to the wa­ter and hit his head on an un­known ob­ject. The im­pact knocked him un­con­scious.

His friends and a passer­by pulled him to shore, and CPR was per­formed for 20 min­utes be­fore emer­gency per­son­nel ar­rived. He was tak­en to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where doc­tors said he ap­pears to be par­a­lyzed from the neck down.

Po­lice are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.