Wanted For Five Days Not Visiting You, Search For Missing Fishermen In West Seram Stopped

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JAKARTA - The Ambon SAR team stopped the search operation for a fisherman from Preparation Village, Tihu, West Seram Regency, Maluku. Five were searched but the victim has not been found.

"In connection with the SAR operation entering its fifth day and there are no signs of the victim's whereabouts and the results of an evaluation with the family and elements of potential SAR, the SAR operation is officially closed," said Head of the Ambon SAR Office, Mustari in Ambon, Thursday, January 5, quoted from Antara.

Even though the SAR operation has been officially closed, it will continue with monitoring and then if there is a report on the victim known as Lamuda Masiri, the SAR operation will be reopened.

According to him, the 49-year-old fisherman was reported missing while fishing around the waters of Tihu Preparation Village on Friday, (30/12) at around 05.00 WIT using a ketinting-engined boat.

The search efforts carried out by the joint SAR team on the fifth day will still be divided into two SRU (Search and Rescue Unit) where the first SRU at 07.00 WIT using the Maluku Basarnas rubber boat moved to search at coordinates 3 deg 17.70" S - 127 deg 34' 23.28" E north of Manipa Island.

Meanwhile, the SRU two consisting of several longboats of the community began to search for coordinates according to the SAR MAPS, including the coordination of 3 deg 12' 7.81" S - 127 deg 34' 23.28" E and coordinates 3 deg 12' 7.81 "S - 127 deg 41' 14.66" E.

The search efforts continue to be carried out by the Joint SAR Team for 20 Nm but until the afternoon the joint SAR team has not found any sign of the victim's whereabouts.

So that the SAR operation was finally closed after an evaluation and coordinated with the victim's family.