Indonesia continues search for hundreds missing in capsized ship

The ship capsized on September 13 due to bad weather during a 20-hour journey from Surabaya to Banjarmasin The recovery operation has been extended for a week due to the large number of missing persons and the time required to salvage the ship JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities will continue searching on Monday for more than a hundred people still missing after a passenger ship sank in the Java Sea last week, with the confirmed ‌death toll now ‌at 10, its ​rescue ‌agency said ⁠on Sunday. The ​passenger ⁠ship, Virgo Transport 8, was carrying 243 people, including 30 crew members, when it capsized in bad weather early on September 13 during a 20-hour voyage from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan. 'Hopefully ⁠the weather at the site will ‌be favorable (tomorrow)...so more ‌victims trapped inside the ​ship can be evacuated,' ‌said I Putu Sudayana, an official at ‌the national rescue agency in a press conference. Sunday's operation was hampered by strong currents, he said. On Monday, the agency will send a remotely operated ‌vehicle into the vessel to help guide the divers during the operation, Putu ⁠added. The ⁠divers recovered on Sunday one more body from inside the ship's hull, after finding three victims on Friday. Following the latest operation, 125 passengers remained unaccounted for and 108 people had survived. The rescue agency has extended for a week the recovery operation due to the large number of missing people and because the salvage operation to ​right the ship ​is expected to take time, authorities said on Saturday.