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team of divers from the navigation vessel Jadayat in the Karimata Strait has located objects believed to be black boxes of AirAsia flight QZ8501, but has been unable to lift them as they are wedged in the wreckage of the aircraft, an official has confirmed.

Transportation Ministry marine transportation directorate team coordinator A. Tonny Budiono said in a statement on Sunday that the black boxes were at a depth of 30 to 32 meters.

'€œThe black boxes are trapped between pieces of the aircraft'€™s body. It was difficult for the team to retrieve them [today],'€ Tonny said in a written press statement on Sunday.

Tonny said the team would continue to dive in the Karimata Strait on Monday morning to try to obtain the black boxes.

'€œDue to the time constraints, we decided to stop today'€™s search and will continue the search on Monday morning,'€ he said.

Tony added that if the team failed again to retrieve the black boxes, then the divers would attach a flotation device to the relevant section of the aircraft'€™s body, the same technique used to lift the tail on Saturday.

'€œTo ease Monday'€™s search, the team of divers from the Navy will [if necessary] attach a floating device provided by the Jadayat,'€ Tony said.

Separately, during a press conference on Sunday, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) head Unggul Priyanto claimed that the BPPT'€™s vessel, the Baruna Jaya, had detected two signals believed to be from the missing black boxes in the Karimata Strait.

The detected location of the black boxes was in the same area as where the plane'€™s tail section was lifted from the sea on Saturday.

'€œWe detected two signals located only 5 meters apart,'€ Unggul said at the BPPT headquarters in Jakarta on Sunday.

In addition, another vessel, the KM Java Imperia, which is tasked with helping the search, also detected signals on Sunday from the same location as detected by the Baruna Jaya.

National Search and Rescue Team (Basarnas) operational director First Marshal SB Supriyadi said the agency had deployed 21 divers to help the team from the Baruna Jaya to sweep the area where it said signals had been detected.

'€œAround 21 divers were sent to the location as additional help. If more divers are needed, then we will deploy more of our divers from the KN Purworejo vessel. The result of the scan detector and the ping signal suggests the black boxes are located in the main body of the aircraft. We hope the information is correct,'€ Supriyadi said.

The National Police'€™s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team on Sunday identified three bodies recovered from the Karimata Strait.

The total number of identified bodies as of Sunday was 32. There were 162 on board the aircraft when it went missing en route to Singapore from Surabaya last month.

The team said it was still working to identify 16 other bodies housed at Bhayangkara Hospital in Surabaya.

East Java Police head Budiono said the three bodies were identified as Kyung Hwa Lee and Seong Beom Park, both South Korean nationals, and Vera Chandra Kho, an Indonesian national.