Divers and rescue crews unloaded a body bag from one of the rescue vessels that pulled into port at Porticello on Wednesday afternoon (late Wednesday AEST).
The discovery confirmed that the operation to search the wreckage on the seabed 50 metres underwater was a recovery one, not a rescue.
Fifteen people escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued by a nearby sailboat. One body was recovered on Monday — that of the ship’s Antigua-born chef, Recaldo Thomas.
