A police helicopter prepares to take off - part of an ongoing search and rescue mission.
Indonesian authorities are searching for over 200 people missing after an overcrowded boat packed with illegal immigrants sank off the coast of east Java.
Many of the passengers on the wooden vessel are believed to be economic migrants from the Middle East.
Authorities say over 70 people have been rescued.
One of the survivors though said that only around 30 people in his group had made it out alive.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) SURVIVOR, NOROZ YOUSEFI:
"We already 250 or 260 and all of them is dead. Up to now they did not find anybody. Only the fishing man, he saw us, and saved only 30 person."
The boat was en route to Australia when it sank.
The sinking is the latest of several such disasters in recent years.
Simon Hanna, Reuters.
