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Free Malaysia Today
a day ago
- Health
- Free Malaysia Today
Malaysian man drowns while diving in Aceh
The diver was said to have attempted to surface following the instructor's instructions but lost consciousness upon reaching the surface. (Freepik pic) PETALING JAYA : A 33-year-old Malaysian man drowned while diving in the waters off Iboih in Kota Sabang, Aceh, Indonesia, yesterday morning. Berita Harian reported that the victim was diving at the popular site with two other Malaysians and a dive instructor when the incident occurred at 9.30am. The daily quoted Berita Rakyat Aceh as saying Indonesian police rushed to the site after receiving a report. The group had been diving for about 20 minutes at a depth of 30m when they were caught in a strong underwater current. The victim was said to have attempted to surface following the instructor's orders but lost consciousness upon reaching the surface. He was immediately assisted by the others and taken to Pantai Iboih in a speedboat. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered by the instructor and fellow divers before he was taken to a nearby clinic. He was pronounced dead upon arrival an hour later at 10.30am. His body was taken to Sabang City Hospital for a post-mortem. The remains are expected to be repatriated to Malaysia once the post-mortem is completed.
CBC
3 days ago
- General
- CBC
Q&A: Divers locate car that sank to bottom of Lake Minnewanka over 8 decades ago
A car that's been sitting at the bottom of Lake Minnewanka for more than eight decades has finally been located and photographed by a group of divers. It's believed the car sank about 85 years ago and has been sitting 55 metres below the surface ever since at the popular lake in Banff National Park. The lake is a big draw for scuba divers because a dam built in 1940 forever submerged the summer village of Minnewanka Landing. Three divers from Alberta and B.C. recently made the journey to the lake's dark and icy depths and took some spectacular pictures of the car. Calgary's Alan Keller is one of the divers. He chatted with Loren McGinnis, host of CBC Radio's the Calgary Eyeopener, on Thursday. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. What do you know about the car, how did it get there? They don't know much about the car other than the legend or rumour about the car that the guides share about it. That a gentleman was on the ice. He wanted to take a picture of his car with the backdrop of the mountains, and he's setting up his camera and as he's turning around, his car fell through the ice. Glug, glug. Glug, exactly. Do you know how old the car is? We estimated it's a 1928 Hudson Essex Saloon, based upon images that we can match with it on the internet. How did you find it? We found it because there were people in the lake a few years ago doing some searching for other purposes. And so they came across this target. And of course with the world being a small place and scuba divers being a small community, they shared that information with us right instantly. And so then we went out and gathered our resources and then did the dive. Take us to the moment when you saw it. What was it like when you first encountered it? There was a lot of stuff going on initially when we found it. So when we got down, we didn't see it right away because we weren't that lucky. We had to do a little bit of searching. So we did a spoke pattern and then about the third time that we went out, my buddy Johnny saw it and he was the first one to lay eyes on it. And I was, of course, the second. But it was a state of like, "Holy cow, we actually found it." That's very lucky to be able to find something so small on a first go, but also to be the first people to lay your eyes on it after 85 years was pretty spectacular. And just the condition of the visibility, that sort of thing, to be able to see it properly and take proper images of it it all — it all worked out. How did you prepare for the dive? Because 55 metres — that's no joke. Behind the scenes, there's a lot of training behind it … like estimating how deep it's going to be. So we have the estimate from when they were out on the lake, but then we had estimated based upon where the lake level is now, because it's an active reservoir. And so they'll manage the lake level for the spring runoff, that sort of thing. And then it's just a matter of, OK, it's this deep. Now we need to plan what our gases are that they're going to be breathing, and how are we going to be co-ordinating the dive teams, that sort of thing. And then how are we going to mitigate any risks, like, what if something goes wrong. How long did it take you to find it? When we were doing the dive, about seven minutes. Oh, that's amazing. Oh, we had really good information. So the information we had was really good and then we also interpreted the information as well. How has the reaction been in the diving circles that you run in? It's pretty cool. It's just something, because it's a lake that a lot of local people dive, just to have something new out there. A lot of people aren't going to be able to dive it because of its depth, but just that there was something actually new to find and there's other stuff out there. What else do you figure is out there? One of the images that I saw looks like a box car from a mine — there was lots of mining activity there. Are you now going to spend some time in Minnewanka trying to find out what else is in there? Yeah, definitely. Now that we've been successful with what I'm probably going to say was the most challenging one to target, just because of the depth and where it's at in the lake, we definitely want to tackle the other ones. Is this discovery going to attract more divers to this site? Oh yeah, everybody's just like, "Hey, next time hit me up."
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE PIPELINE: The Coast Guard arrived with their guns and told us not to go inside - new Mail podcast explores how oil company blocked attempts to rescue men trapped inside underwater pipe
Podcast All episodes Play on Apple Spotify On the latest episode of the Mail's Pipeline podcast, reporter Isabelle Stanley investigates why efforts to rescue five men trapped in an underwater oil pipe were thwarted. In February 2022, five divers were sucked into a 30-inch pipe they were repairing off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. Despite one of the divers, Christopher Boodram, escaping after an unimaginable three-hour ordeal, rescue attempts for the remaining four were repeatedly blocked, leaving them to die slowly in what became a national scandal. Ronald Ramoutar, who was among the first on the scene, recounted his experience to Stanley on the six-part investigative podcast. Ramoutar was an experienced diver, who headed to the site of the accident as soon as he heard what had happened. Soon after arriving, he pulled Christopher Boodram out of the pipe, where he was waiting to be rescued, having fought his way back to the surface. The pipe was managed by Paria, one arm of Trinidad's state-owned oil company. Paria maintain it was too dangerous to send rescuers into the pipe to recover the trapped men. 'When we arrived at Berth 6, we were already in diving gear. They kept shouting at us – you do not have permission to enter the water', Ramoutar said. I went into the water anyway. Inside the pipe, I heard a voice calling – I climbed back out and saw Christopher. We took some rope, tied some loops in it, and managed to get him to climb up it like a ladder. That's how we got him out. 'We spoke to Christopher about what happened – he confirmed everyone was still alive and that they were in an air pocket.' Using a tapping system to communicate with the four divers still trapped underwater, Mr Ramoutar verified Christopher's story. Along with several other volunteer divers who had also arrived at the scene, Ramoutar devised a rescue plan. They decided that Michael Kurban, whose father was trapped inside the pipe would dive inside himself, to try and pull the others out. The tragedy sparked a national scandal in Trinidad, and billboards demanding justice still line street corners to this day. Listen here On his first attempt, Michael was forced to resurface, realising that his air hose, which he was breathing through, was not long enough to go around the bend in the U-shaped pipe. 'By the time Michael came up, Paria officials told us – the Coast Guard is coming to help', Ramoutar said. 'We were told to wait. We thought, 'Good – the Coast Guard has experienced divers.' They will assist us. We backed down and waited. 'They arrived and told us – we're not trained for this; we're not going down there. They wouldn't even go inside the chamber – the whole thing was a waste of time.' Just as they were preparing to try again on their own, the Coast Guard, under Paria's orders, blocked them from staging another rescue attempt. 'They told us we cannot go', Mr Ramoutar said. 'They each had an automatic weapon. 'They said in a firm voice more than once, don't go. They kept on saying it. We decided to back down.' Three days later, on Monday February 28th 2022, Paria began pumping out the bodies of the four divers from the pipe. Autopsies would later reveal that one of them may have been alive in those unimaginable conditions for up to 39 hours. To hear all the first-hand accounts from those involved in the desperate rescue effort, search for Pipeline now, wherever you get your podcasts.
Times of Oman
4 days ago
- General
- Times of Oman
Dimaniyat Islands sees major coral reef cleanup
Muscat: The Sultanate of Oman's Environment Authority (EA) recently conducted its first coral reef cleaning campaign of 2025 in the Dimaniyat Islands Nature Reserve, located in South Al Batinah. The Environment Authority said: 'The Authority has launched the first coral reef cleaning campaign in the Dimaniyat Islands Nature Reserve for 2025 in South Al Batinah.' 'As part of this effort, divers cleared 140 kg of nets and iron debris from Lumiyya Island, reinforcing their commitment to marine conservation and the protection of natural habitats,' EA added.
CBC
25-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Summer Senior National Diving Championships: Men 10m Prelim
Watch the men's 10m preliminary round from the Summer Senior National Diving Championships at the Shaw Centre in Saskatoon.
