His body surfaced about 30km away from where he disappeared on Sept 9 at the Eastern Petroleum A Anchorage off the Bedok Jetty.

Yesterday, seven of his relatives, including his parents and wife, caught an afternoon ferry from HarbourFront and later that evening, identified his badly-decomposed body at a mortuary in Batam.

Read Carolyn Quek's full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.