KLUANG, Aug 30 – The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) has appointed a private company to conduct the salvage operation of Kapal Diraja (KD) Pendekar that sank off Tanjung Penyusup, in Kota Tinggi last Sunday.
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the Navy has conducted initial work, including identifying and ensuring that equipment on the ship was in good condition but would leave the refloating and salvage work to the private company.
“The postmortem has yet to be completed and is expected to take a month and we don’t know anything about the death (of the diver) as we have yet to receive the full report.
“We expect the full report on the KD Pendekar leak to take a month,” he said at a media conference.
