Rescue workers continue the search for six missing peoplepublished at 20:28 British Summer Time 20 August
![Rescue workers and divers from the Italian fire brigade as a rescue operation continues for the missing people who were on board a sailboat that sank, in Porticello, Sicily Island](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/640/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/8/20/5af2e199-c534-4cb5-83ee-48d36b71319d.jpg.webp)
Search crews say their efforts to recover the six people still not accounted for after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday will "continue without stopping".
As the second day of that operation comes to close, here's what we have learned:
- Friends of Recaldo Thomas, the chef believed to have died in the sinking, have begun to pay tribute to his "smile that lit up a room"
- Three more survivors have been named as Leo Eppel and South African nationals Leah Randall and Katja Chicken - all members of crew that were on board the ship when it sank
- Six people still remain unaccounted for: Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy, and Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda
- Divers have been able to reach the lounge of the yacht but their path to the cabins has been blocked by "a world of objects"
- The Italian coastguard says that specialist divers are "evaluating the feasibility of safely entering the wreck", but warn the search is being complicated by its "depth and the position of the hull" around 50m (164ft) below the surface
- Jonathan Bloomer's twin brother has told the BBC his family are "coping the best we can" as they wait for updates from the rescue team's ongoing efforts
We're going to pause our coverage now but you can read more about the second day of the Bayesian search operation here.
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