Five bodies have been found and now identified in the search for those missing after a yacht sank off the Sicily coast, including that of tech tycoon Mike Lynch. His daughter, 18, remains unaccounted for. Six people have died in total.
The recovery operation will have taken a huge mental and physical toll on the divers, a former Royal Navy submarine captain has said.Those involved in salvaging bodies of the victims from the wreckage will have undergone 'huge amounts of psychological stress', Ryan Ramsey told Sky News.'It's been exceptionally stressful for them both mentally and physically,' he said.'If you take into account the pressures that they're operating under, those are considerable.
It's a platform that they've never been inside before, and they're having to recover bodies. That's huge amounts of psychological stress for those for those divers.'Mr Ramsay said that as well as the mental impact, the process of diving to the wreck and coming to surface repeatedly will have been 'exceptionally tiring for them'.'The transit from the surface to 50m down takes a considerable amount of time. Then, of course... you've only got a small window.
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