MELAKA: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) will investigage how and why a merchant ship captain went overboard and was only found after 18 hours adrift.
The 42-year-old captain of the Indonesian-registered vessel, known only as Gunawan, was rescued by MMEA about 12.8 nautical miles off Pulau Panjang here on Sunday after he was reported missing by a shipping agent.
He said a search-and-rescue mission was launched after MMEA received a distress call that the captain of MV Habour Naptune was missing from his cabin.It is believed that the captain went missing from his vessel at about 10pm on April 18. "The captain told us that he only plied the Malaysian and Indonesian maritime routes and had no experience in manouevring his vessel beyond the littoral border," he said.
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