21 Penyelam Dikerahkan Basarnas untuk Evakuasi Korban AirAsia
Indonesian SAR Deploys 21 Divers to Search AirAsia QZ8501 Victims
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Jakarta (B2B) - Badan SAR Nasional siap menerjunkan 21 penyelam untuk mencari pesawat AirAsia QZ 8501 yang kini mulai diketahui letaknya di sekitar perairan Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah.
"Sebanyak 21 penyelam yang terdiri dari 11 personel TNI AL dan 10 dari tim penyelamat akan menyelam di sekitar daerah ditemukannya serpihan, benda atau bagian yang diduga berasal dari pesawat AirAsia QZ 8501," kata Kepala Basarnas Bambang Soelistyo di Jakarta, Selasa.
Marsekal Madya TNI Bambang Soelistyo mengatakan penyelam diterjunkan menilik kedalaman laut ada di kisaran 25-30 meter di bawah permukaan laut, sehingga masih aman untuk manusia menyelam.
Dengan kata lain, tim SAR belum akan menggunakan alat bantuan pencari karena area masih bisa dijangkau penyelam.
Sebelumnya, tim gabungan mulai menemukan bagian yang diduga pesawat AirAsia QZ 8501 berikut jenazah yang berada di perairan dekat Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan Tengah.
Berdasarkan penuturan Bambang, pesawat C925 AU menemukan benda-benda, serpihan atau bagian warna putih yang diduga dari pesawat Air Asia QZ 8501 yang mengapung pada koordinat 3 derajat 46 50-LS 110 derajat 29 27-BT pada pukul 08.00 WIB.
Pada 11.30, pesawat C-130 TNI AU menemukan potongan logam pada koordinat 3 derajat 50 43-LS 110 derajat 29 21-BT.
Selanjutnya pukul 12.40, pesawat C-130 TNI AU menemukan pintu darurat/emergency exit pada koordinat 3 derajat 54 48-LS 110 derajat 31 4-BT).
Terkini, KRI Bung Tomo mengevakuasi pintu darurat pada pukul 14.10 di koordinat 4 derajat 5 0-LS 110 derajat 16 0-BT.
Secara umum, lokasi tersebut ada di sekitar perairan dekat Pangkalan Bun. (Ant)
Jakarta (B2B) - The Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) has deployed 21 divers to look for AirAsia QZ8501 plane around Pangkalanbun waters, Central Kalimantan.
"Some 21 divers comprising 11 Indonesian Navy personnel and 10 rescue team members will search the AirAsia debris site," Basarnas Head Rear Marshals TNI FHB Bambang Soelistyo said here on Tuesday.
He remarked that the divers will search 25 to 30 meters inside the sea and this is safe diving depths.
In other words, rescue teams will not use search tools as the areas are accessible.
So far, Basarnas has covered 95 percent of the AirAsia QZ8501 debris site in the Karimata Strait near Pangkalanbun, Central Kalimantan.
"Findings indicate that 95 percent of the location has been searched and the debris and objects recovered so far reportedly belonged to the AirAsia aircraft," Bambang Soelistyo said.
On Tuesday, the third day of the search for AirAsia QZ8501 plane, which has been missing since Sunday (December 28), rescue teams found some debris objects suspected to be aircraft parts.
"I have not seen the objects. But based on reports received from the field, they include an emergency exit door," he affirmed.
These findings indicate that the objects were part of the aircraft that has gone missing.
Objects that look like metal plates have been found floating. Some objects that look like airframe, emergency exit doors, and the bodies of passengers have also been spotted.
Ten objects believed to be plane debris were spotted by Indonesian Air Force official Agus Dwi Putranto who was flying to Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, on a CN-235 plane.
Basarnas then sent a team to the site for a close inspection of the objects.
The objects were seen some 105 miles away from Pangkalan Bun. This is some 10 kilometers from the location where the AirAsia QZ8501 plane was contacted just before it disappeared on Sunday morning over the Java Sea with 162 people on board.
