Indonesian officials said they were confident wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 had been located after sonar equipment detected five massive objects on the ocean floor.
The search remains a struggle due to 'zero visibility', strong tides and murky water at the bottom of the ocean.
The remains of four passengers were found on Sunday, the eighth day of the search, bringing the total number of recovered bodies to 34.
Three of the victims are from the US and the fourth is from Singapore.
There were 162 people on board and no survivors have been found.
Four 'big objects' had been located at the bottom of the Java Sea near Borneo.
On Sunday, the eighth day of the search, a fifth piece of the wreckage was also found at a different location on the seabed; 9.8 metres long, 1.1 metres wide and 0.4 metre high.
Basarnas chief Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo confirmed that, due to mud deposits and currents of three to five knots their search efforts had been deterred and divers have been temporarily stopped.
They hope to soon deploy a remotely-operated underwater vehicle.
The biggest piece, measuring 18 metres long and 5.4 metres wide, appeared to be part of the jet's body, Henry Bambang Soelistyo, chief of the National Search and Rescue Agency said.
It comes as Indonesian weather experts speculate icing of the engine could have been one of the possible scenarios that caused the plane to crash last Sunday, halfway into a two-hour flight from Surabaya, Indonesia's second-largest city, to Singapore.
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