AN UNDERGRADUATE was trying to retrieve a sail from the water out at sea when he leaned too far out of a keelboat and fell overboard, a coroner's court heard yesterday.

Mr Levin Angsana, a 22-year-old first-year Singapore Management University (SMU) student, could not swim. Neither was he wearing a life jacket.

And as the keelboat was missing an engine, which was being repaired, his teammates could not motor to pick him up when he drifted away.

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