A BODY in a scuba-diving suit and strapped to an oxygen tank was found floating by fishermen about 8.7 nautical miles southwest off Sungai Besar, located 103km from Shah Alam yesterday evening.

Selangor Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) director, Maritime Captain Mohd Rosli Kassim said fishermen contacted the MMEA after they found the body at about 3pm.

He said an MMEA team and a Marine Police Force (MPF) boat went to the scene to locate the body. It was found at about 6pm.

“The body was taken to the Sungai Besar Fishermen’s jetty at 9pm before it was sent to the Sabak Bernam Hospital,” he said.

Mohd Rosli believed the incident is linked to a missing scuba diver in the waters off Sungai Besar on August 3.

A diver, Calvin Patrick Lazaroo, 27, went missing in the waters off Sungai Besar at about 10.30am on that day.

He was believed to have conducted dives with three others to tie a rope to a sunken boat but failed to surface.

A search and rescue operation was conducted in the area without success. – Bernama, August 9, 2021.