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The mysterious death of Lance Corporal Mar Teng Fong on board The Republic of Singapore Ship (RSS) Persistence.
It was reported that the Lance Corporal Mar Teng Fong was found unconscious and trapped between a hydraulic door and its door frame. And that this particular door connected the engine room to the propeller shaft compartment of the ship. What went wrong? From the brief description, that hydraulic door ought to refer to a water-tight sliding door. Hmm...difficult to imagine such a door can be faulty. Especially with the strict regime of maintenance that any vessel is implementing. The Republic of Singapore Ship (RSS) Persistence was out at sea for training manoeuvres when tragedy struck. One of its sailors was found unconscious and had to be evacuated to a hospital in Singapore. He later died. 20-year-old Lance Corporal (LCP) Mar Teng Fong was on engineering watch duty on board the helicopter landing ship on 17 November 2009. He went for a routine check of the ship's engineering systems at about 11.40pm, but the engineering systems specialist did not return. After another 15 minutes, there was still no s
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