Chinese Tourist Drowns While Diving Off Maratua, Indonesia: 47-Year-Old From Shanghai Found Floating After Separating From Group
Police in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, have confirmed that a 47-year-old Chinese tourist drowned while diving off Maratua Island on November 10. The victim, Yan Lingning, was from Shanghai, China.
Berau police public relations chief AKP Suradi told local media the diver was believed to have been caught in an underwater vortex current and overcome by exhaustion. The dive site was in the waters off Kampung Teluk Alulu, Maratua, near the Tong Bahaba channel.
According to the timeline compiled by local media, the diver set out at 1:30 p.m. with six others from the Maratua Dive Center and reached the site at about 1:50 p.m. for a first dive to about 29.6 metres lasting roughly 35 minutes. After resting on the speedboat for about an hour, the group began a second dive at 3:20 p.m. to about 9 metres, during which the diver became separated from the group.
At about 4:30 p.m. the diver was found floating on the surface. Companions performed CPR, but the diver could not be revived. The body was taken at 5:00 p.m. to the Maratua community health centre, where Dr Emanuel Putra Sitorus conducted an examination; at the family's request, the body was then transferred by speedboat to RSUD dr. Abdul Rivai hospital in Tanjung Redeb.
Police said further official details on how the accident happened were still awaited. Maratua is a well-known Indonesian diving destination, noted for turtle and manta-ray dive sites.
（来源：印度尼西亚贝劳县警察局）
Source: Berau Police, Indonesia
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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