A diver dies while trying to recover bodies

Indonesian diver dies as he tries to recover remains of pbadengers from Lion Air flight which crashed on Monday
in Indonesia with 189 people on board. Syachrul Anto, aged 48, who was a volunteer with the Search and Rescue Agency, died during decompression. "He was found by other members of the team who were able to bring him to the surface and he was placed in the decompression chamber," but that was not enough to save him, said Saturday to the AFP the head of the agency, Isswarto.

He had previously participated in research in Palu after the September earthquake and tsunami, and searches for bodies and debris when an Air Asia flight crashed at sea four years ago.

A black box found on Thursday

Research teams have been probing the waters of the Java Sea since Monday, when the Boeing 737 MAX 8 of the low-cost company that went into service just a few months ago plunged. Shortly before the accident, the crew had requested air traffic control to return to Jakarta, from where it had taken off about ten minutes earlier. Its destination was Pangkal Pingang, a transit area for tourists wishing to enjoy the beaches of the neighboring island of Belitung.

Thursday, the rescue had managed to recover one of the black boxes but continued Saturday to look for the second, the one that recorded what happens in the badpit and that could help to understand what happened. The company acknowledged that the aircraft, a new model, had had technical problems during a previous flight.

The teams have put together at least 73 bags containing human remains, but so far only four casualties have been identified.