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SINGAPORE – Authorities found the body of a 41-year-old man who disappeared Sunday afternoon while snorkeling alone near the Sisters’ Islands Marine Park.
In an update Tuesday night (Dec. 8), police said they found and recovered the body from the waters near Sisters’ Island around 5.45 p.m.
They had mounted a search and rescue operation for the man on Sunday after receiving a call for help around 12:40 p.m. that day, along with the Singapore Maritime and Port Authority and the Singapore Civil Defense Force.
A visitor to the park who was on the island on Sunday told The Straits Times that the man’s wife had approached him around 12 p.m. that day to ask if he had seen her husband.
The woman, who looked terrified and appeared to be in her 30s, described her husband as tall and said he had been missing for four hours, said the visitor, who wanted to be known only as Mr. Ariff.
The 25-year-old freight vehicle driver said the woman told him her husband had planned to snorkel for 30 minutes.
“We were surprised to see how he’s been missing for so long, but we just got to the area,” Ariff told ST.
With his friends, he got into the water where the man was last seen snorkeling, but said it was too deep and the currents were too strong.
As they swam, they noticed police boats circling the area and officers walking around the island, presumably looking for the missing man, Ariff said.
He left the island around 4pm that day with his friends, saying it was raining heavily when he left.
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