A Singaporean man was found to have fallen overboard from a cruise ship on Sunday night in the waters off Malacca — and the crew only realised that he was missing the next day, just before the ship docked in Georgetown, Penang.
60-year-old Wuan Poh Fatt had been on a holiday cruise to Penang with five others aboard the Superstar Gemini, reports the The New Straits Times.
CCTV footage revealed that a person had fell overboard at 11.05pm on November 27, when the ship was 9.5 nautical miles off Pulau Besar and 12 nautical miles off Tanjung Kling.
Wuan was only confirmed to be missing after a headcount and had failed to respond to announcements shortly before the Superstar Gemini docked in Georgetown on Monday.
A report was sent to the Kuala Linggi Maritime Operations Centre, prompting a search and rescue operation by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.
It would be their second similar operation conducted in a month in the waters off Malacca — a Japanese sailor had fallen overboard off merchant ship MT Doha late last month.
Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs are currently providing consular assistance to the man’s family.
