An international technical delegate for the Asian Beach Games' jet ski sport went missing during a trip to Nusa Lembongan islet, southeast of Bali, officials said Friday.

As of Friday evening, beach patrol police and a rescue team were still searching for the missing man, identified as Jeremy Holland from Britain, using three helicopters and four jet skis. Local fishermen were also asked to join the search.

Games organizers said Holland went to the island with four of his friends on three jet skis at around 9 a.m. Three of his friends on two of the crafts returned to the jet ski venue at Tanjung Benoa Beach at around 1 p.m., but Holland, who was supposed to preside over the evening race, failed to turn up at the base.

Jet ski competition manager Fully Aswar said Holland and his friends had asked for his permission to ride their crafts near Tanjung Benoa Beach. Aswar said he found out later that they went to Nusa Lembongan islet instead.

"It was not in the jet ski sport schedule. They went there on their own will. I only found out that he was missing when I checked the team for the next competition," Aswar told The Jakarta Post on Friday evening.

Aswar regretted that Holland's friends did not immediately report to the Games officials as soon as they found out that their friend was missing.

"The basic rule in jet ski sport is that a jet skier must keep within sight,"he said.

Aswar said Holland was contactable through his cellphone at around 2 p.m. and said that he was about two miles (3.22 km) away from the seashore. But later he could not be reached.

At around 6 p.m. his number could be contacted but there was no response.

- Indah Setiawati/Matheos Viktor Messakh

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