Mersing Maritime: SAR operation for three missing foreign divers halted at 6.30pm due to limited visibility
MERSING, April 7 — The search and rescue operation to locate three foreign scuba divers who went missing in the waters of Pulau Tokong Sanggol, near here, at noon yesterday, was halted this evening.
He said the agencies involved in the operation were the Royal Malaysia Police , Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency , Special Service Group Iskandar Camp Mersing, Fire and Rescue Department , Malaysian Civil Defence Force and Fisheries Department. “Nevertheless, we have assets at all times at sea in the waters of Mersing which will assist in the SAR operation continuously,” he told a media conference at the search and rescue operation forward base at the Mersing District Council Public Jetty here today.
“I received information from a diver who was saved today , that they don’t have a beacon. As such, the possibility of us seeing them at night is rather slim,” he said.
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