SEALEGS SETS RECORDS
Twenty-seven Sealegs craft recently landed on Malaysia’s Langkawi Island, setting two records in the process.
Belonging to the Malaysian Civil Defence Force (APM) and the Fire Department (BOMBA), the boats represent the largest assembled fleet of government-owned Sealegs anywhere in the world. Secondly, theirs was the longest trip undertaken by a fleet of amphibious craft (an achievement now registered in the Malaysian Book of Records).
The fleet took off from Melaka State and travelled more than 700km north along the East coast of Malaysia to Langkawi Island, making pre-planned stops to demonstrate the advantages of Sealegs technology for emergency response.
The Langkawi Amphibious Craft Expedition, as it was called, was organised and led by APM’s commissioner Datuk Roslan Wahab and coincided both with APM’s 67th operational anniversary and the 2019 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA’19). The expedition’s purpose was demonstrating the capability and efficiency of amphibious craft for responding to Malaysia’s increasing number of coastal emergency situations. www.sealegs.com
