Sopihan Bin Haji Tamit, an RBAF personnel, and Said Bin Chucu, both in their mid-thirties, reportedly left Jerudong beach early on Sunday morning aboard a boat powered by eighty-five horsepower engine.

An army spokesman said today that around that time the sea was rough with waves between three and four metres high.

The police said they received a report from a relative of one of the two men after the relative himself received a text message from the pair that their boat had capsized in waters around an oil installation, some twenty-six kilometres out at sea off Jerudong beach.

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