From Malay Mail · · 1m 30s
A Tioman dive ends in a drowning
A 65-year-old tourist survived her first scuba session, then slipped off the ladder climbing back aboard the boat.
In brief
A 65-year-old tourist survived her first scuba session, then slipped off the ladder climbing back aboard the boat. The fatal moment came after the dive was over, on the boat ladder, with her gear already off. Originally reported by Malay Mail.
A drowning off Renggis
Sabiya Shiek, a 65-year-old Indian national, drowned in the waters of Renggis, Pulau Tioman, on Saturday. She had just finished a scuba diving activity.
The call came at 10am
Rompin district police received a call from the Tekek Health Clinic on Pulau Tioman reporting the drowning.
A family in the water
Sabiya was on a discovery scuba diving session with six family members, supervised by two instructors and a dive master.
She wanted to go back
With the session finished, she told her instructor she was ready to return to the boat.
“After the session, the victim informed the instructor that she wished to return to the boat.”
A slip on the ladder
Her child helped her out of her diving gear. Climbing the ladder to board, she is believed to have slipped and fallen backwards into the sea.
“Sabiya is believed to have slipped while climbing the ladder to get on board and fell back into the sea”
Fifteen minutes to find her
The diving instructors went in after her straight away. They found her about 15 minutes later, unconscious on the sandy seabed near the dive site.
Pronounced dead onshore
A medical officer at the Tekek Health Clinic pronounced her dead. A post-mortem is set for Monday at Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital in Kuantan.
Here's the gist
The fatal moment came after the dive was over, on the boat ladder, with her gear already off.
