Recovery efforts at Indonesian plane crash site futile, says diver

An Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee investigator inspects pieces of the Sriwijaya Air flight SJ-182 retrieved from the Java Sea where the passenger jet crashed on Jan. 9 at the Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 19, 2021. - AP

JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Bayu Wardoyo tends to skip the 6am breakfast of Indonesian fried rice served to divers on the ship searching for wreckage of the Sriwijaya Air passenger jet that crashed in the Java Sea on Jan 9. He prefers coffee, light snacks and some fruit to prepare for the long day ahead.

Later in the morning, kitted out in a black wetsuit and weighed down by diving paraphernalia, he boards a speedboat and heads out under heavy monsoon clouds to the day’s search area.