"Today, we will proceed to the location to find the victims. Minimally, there will be 50 divers involved. Yesterday, we had deployed 15 fishing boats, but the efforts failed due to bad weather," Chief of 102 Panju-Panjung resort military command Colonel Sulaiman Agusto informed newsmen here on Wednesday.
Due to high waves and stormy weather, the operation of the evacuation team was halted yesterday but will be continued on Wednesday.
With the reinforcement, it is expected that the evacuation efforts would be smoother, he affirmed.
"We hope the weather will be fine today, and no obstacles will be encountered," he added.
Colonel Agusto had left for the location to be part of the recovery process.
Three more bodies of the passengers on board the missing AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have been discovered in Karimata Strait near Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, the Indonesian search agency authority noted.
With this discovery, so far, six bodies have been found by the Indonesian search team members, Chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) F. H. Bambang Sulistyo reported here on Wednesday morning.
"One of the three new bodies is a woman wearing a flight attendants uniform," Sulistyo stated during a press conference here.
The six bodies had been retrieved, but they had yet to be transported to the East Java city of Surabaya for a postmortem examination by the polices Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) unit, he added.
Reporting by Untung Setiawan
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