Esther Molina, the mother of an 18-year-old French girl, Alexia Alexandra Molina, who went missing off the coast of Malaysia after going diving, said she is “hoping for the best”.
The teenage girl is among two other Europeans who went missing, along with their instructor, after going diving near an island in the south.
The instructor, a 35-year-old Norwegian woman by the name of Kristine Grodem, was rescued alive on Thursday after drifting for miles and has since been conveyed to the hospital in a stable condition.
Molina spoke to AFP from the base for the search operations, Mersing:
“We hear from experienced divers that the situation is positive, they’re above water, hopefully they’re together still. We are hoping for the best. She’s a strong girl.”
The other two missing divers are Drain Peter Chesters, a 46-year-old British man; and his 14-year-old son Nathan Renze Chester, who is Dutch.
Senior Police official Cyril Edward Nuing said that rescue operations have resumed, and that “Until now we have not received new sightings pertaining to the three missing divers.”