AFTER almost 11 months of waiting – during which time she gave birth to a child who will never know his father's voice or feel his touch – Candacy Phillip says that at long last she and her family can get closure, as an operation has commenced to retrieve the body of her husband Pete Phillip from a rig which partially collapsed on December 22.

She said even if the retrieval operation on the Well Services Petroleum Co Ltd's rig, cannot locate her husband's body, she would be satified with his clothing being brought back, so as to confirm that he is no longer alive so that she and her family can, finally, move on with their lives.

She is not optimistic that 45-year-old Phillip's body would be found after so many months out at sea.