Divers have continued to search for survivors off the coast of Sicily amid hopes some survivors might be trapped in air pockets inside the ship.
Five bodies have been found by divers searching the wreck of the superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily. Four bodies have been brought ashore and efforts to recover the fifth will continue tomorrow. The body of the yacht's chef, Recaldo Thomas, had been recovered already, the Italian coastguard confirmed to Sky News on Tuesday. Today's discoveries bring the total number of confirmed dead to six. Authorities are yet to confirm the identity of the bodies found on Wednesday.
Divers involved in the search and rescue operation for the sunken Costa Concordia in 2013 have been called in to stretch the amount of time underwater to 20 minutes per dive. For the past two days, a major challenge for divers had been their limit of 12 minutes on each dive, including the time to go down and come back up. But the Costa Concordia divers have cylinders containing particular micelles which allow for a longer dive.
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