A briefing today indicates that additional divers with skills and support equipment to enable extended dive periods (Technical Divers) have been assigned to assist KNKT in the search for the CVR memory module.
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Search for CVR Sriwijaya Air SJ182 Continues, Navy Deploys 34 Divers
By Luqman Nurhadi Arunanta
DetikNews 2021.02.15 15:19 WIB
The search for Sriwijaya Air SJ182 cockpit voice recorder (CVR) continues. The Navy also deployed 34 divers from the Underwater Dive and Rescue Service (Dislambair).
"Dislambair has prepared 34 personnel who will continue the search for CVR in support of the search operation held by KNKT," said Kadislambair Koarmada I, Marine Colonel Wahyudin Arif in his statement, Monday (2/15/2021).
"We have already done planning with KNKT including technical dives that will be carried out so that it is expected that the search can be carried out as effectively as possible taking into account the weather and the safety of the personnel in the field," he explained.
... In addition to diver personnel, the Navy has prepared safety support devices in the form of ambulance cars and Mobile Diving Chamber (MDC) that are standby there," he said.
"Mobile Diving Chamber (MDC) is accompanying the navy dive team personnel as life support. So divers are psychologically calmer, if problems occur they can be dealt with quickly," he said.