Commercial diver lost - Singapore

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It's currently Monday morning in Singapore.

Maritime authorities searching for commercial diver who went missing at sea near Sentosa
SINGAPORE - Maritime authorities are searching for a commercial diver who has been missing at sea since Saturday (May 5).

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said it was alerted about the missing man at 2.43pm on Saturday.

"Two MPA and two Police Coast Guard patrol craft were immediately deployed to the scene to conduct search and rescue," its spokesman said.

The diver had gone missing while he was on the job, conducting underwater operations for the vessel Jork at the Western Anchorage near Sentosa, the spokesman added, noting that the diver's employer had also sent dive boats and other divers to help out with the search.

According to an earlier report by Channel NewsAsia, the man is believed to be Mr Jake Seet Choon Heng.

The MPA has been issuing navigational broadcasts to alert nearby vessels of the incident.



Search and dive operations are currently ongoing.
 
The superintendent used forged foreign commercial diving certification to land the job.

Jail for ex-commercial diving superintendent who failed to notice distress call from drowning diver
  • Former diving superintendent Mohd Zalkarnain Mohd Salleh was working with a diving supervisor who was three days into his job
  • He did not do anything when the supervisor knowingly failed to monitor the diver’s video and audio feed for almost six minutes
  • The supervisor was discussing the next part of the dive plan with him when the diver drowned
  • He also used forged foreign commercial diving certification to land the job

SINGAPORE — First, Mohd Zalkarnain Mohd Salleh used a forged certificate to land a job as a diving superintendent. Then a freelance diver drowned on the job when Zalkarnain and his subordinate, an inexperienced diving supervisor, failed to notice the man's frantic pleas for help via intercom.
On Wednesday, Zalkarnain, 55, pleaded guilty to one count of using forged documents and one count of abetting by illegal omission a rash act causing death. He was jailed for two years — one year for each charge.
The deceased, 33-year-old freelance commercial diver Jake Seet Choon Heng, was found floating in the sea off Sentosa two days after he went missing while working with Zalkarnain at Mola Subsea Services.
The incident took place at 1.39pm on May 5, 2018, when the diving team deployed by Mola was cleaning the hull of a cargo vessel called Jork, which was moored at Singapore’s Western Working Anchorage.
The court heard that the diving supervisor that day, Raden Roslan Mohd, 54 – who was three days into his job – was discussing the next part of the dive plan with Zalkarnain around the time that Seet drowned.
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The two men were in the firm’s “dive shack” where the communications equipment used to keep in touch with the divers was located.
Reconstruction from Seet’s video revealed that his 165m umbilical cord – supplying air to divers and containing cables feeding video and audio from the diver’s helmet to the diving boat – had become entangled with the seabed, preventing him from ascending.
Read more at Jail for ex-commercial diving superintendent who failed to notice distress call from drowning diver
 
That is terrible.
 
Especially in Singapore!
15g of heroin or 500g of hash is mandatory death penalty.
Chewing gum is still not allowed for sale!
Dividends have paid off for Singapore. Almost no COVID cases.
Most Asians come to Australia to complete their Commercial Diving course. 16 OW dives is the entry standard plus some big dollars.
 
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