Search For Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 On The Sixth Day, Basarnas Hopes That The Weather Will No Longer Be Bad

JAKARTA - Basarnas Operations Director, Brigadier General TNI (Mar) Rasman hopes that the search for Sriwijaya Air SJ-182 on the sixth day will be supported by friendly weather. Because, yesterday, the search by the SAR team was hampered by bad weather and high waves.

"Hopefully, we hope that the weather will be friendly today, if we look around we are quite cloudy and based on the weather forecast this morning that this morning there was light rain around Jakarta but sunny cloudy afternoon, hopefully," said Rasman at the JICT 2 Integrated Command Post, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta.

With the expected weather to support the search and rescue of the SAR team, Rasman hopes the team can get maximum search results, both victims and aircraft materials.

In the sixth day of search, the SAR team is still deploying 54 large ships' defense equipment at the search locations of all the agencies involved. Then, small boats such as sea riders, ribs, rubber boats, and jetski, were deployed 18 pieces. Then, 13 air defense equipment were deployed.

"Then we still have sea alut which has underwater sonar capabilities, underwater detection. We will maximize it especially in the search for parts of black boxes and debris," he said.

The search operation concept is almost the same as yesterday. Deployment of air defense equipment to detect findings from a great distance. This is because Rasman predicts that both victims and material have been carried away after six days in the ocean.

"Since it has entered the sixth day, of course there are parts or victims that may have been carried away. Of course it might have been quite far away. Therefore, the search by air may be expanded. Likewise, on our beaches, we also optimize by the potentials that are available. "There are beaches on both islands and big islands," Rasman explained.

The SAR team also continues to carry out searches on the surface. Because, on the fifth day, there was a handover of the search object that was found because it was caught in the fishing net. This means that these parts also float on the surface of the water and are not all embedded in the seabed.

The main thing is subsurface search by diving. To date, there are 268 divers who have entered the search location with six sectors.

"I think this is enough if we maximize the potential of these divers. Hopefully our colleagues are still enthusiastic and in good condition. The mechanism to regulate the rhythm of diving has been carried out by each unit so that we hope that our ability remains. maintained as much as possible, "he said.

As previously reported, until this morning, the SAR team's findings were recorded as many as 141 body bags containing body parts, 31 small bags containing aircraft debris, and 28 large pieces of aircraft.

On the fifth day of the search, there were an additional 2 body bags containing the victim's body parts. Then, the smaller aircraft debris increased by five, and the large aircraft debris increased by two. This number is not as much as the previous day's findings due to bad weather and high waves.