MERSING: Search and rescue operations to find the three missing scuba divers in the waters of Pulau Tokong Sanggol were halted on Friday (April 8) evening.
MERSING, April 7 The search and rescue (SAR) 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. Mersing Maritime Zone director, Maritime Commander Khairul Nizam Misran said the operation,.
MERSING: The search and rescue (SAR) operation to locate three foreign scuba divers who went missing in the waters of Pulau Tokong Sanggol, near here, at noon yesterday, was halted on Thursday (April 7) evening.
JOHOR BARU: Maritime authorities here have detained three Vietnamese fishing vessels and a total of 23 crew members in two separate incidents for encroaching into Malaysian waters off Mersing.
In the first incident, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) detained two vessels together with 19 crewmen aged 18 to 52 some 10 nautical miles north-east of Pulau Pemanggil at around 2am on Sunday (April 25) morning.
Mersing maritime zone director maritime commander Khairul Nizam Misran said the two vessels were spotted during a joint operation with the marine police and Fisheries Department.
“The crew and two captains were detained for failing to show any identification documents, ” he said here on Monday (April 26).