Two more bodies have been found in a luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday.
The boat, owned by the wife of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, was carrying 22 passengers and crew and was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it capsized during a fierce, pre-dawn storm on Monday.
Two corpses were brought ashore from the wreck earlier on Wednesday.
Fifteen people have so far been rescued and one body was previously recovered.
“For us, it remains a rescue operation,” Cari told ABC News Wednesday morning, before the recovery of the two bodies, when asked if emergency services were transitioning to a recovery operation.
Divers have been operating inside the yacht for two days, he added. “But the job is tough because there are large obstacles and [we] have to work in narrow spaces.”
“It’s a long process and we can only operate in short spells,” Cari added. Divers have to be rotated constantly, with each only able to stay underwater for around 12 minutes, he said.
Two Americans — Christopher and Neda Morvillo — are among the six people still missing, ABC News confirmed on Tuesday.
Christopher Morvillo is a partner at law firm Clifford Chance and represented the yacht’s owner — British tech tycoon Mike Lynch — in his recent fraud case brought by Hewlett Packard. He is a former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Morgan Stanley International Chairman Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Anne Elizabeth Judith Bloomer are among the six missing passengers.
Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah are believed to also be among the missing.
