Two bodies have been recovered from a fishing vessel that capsized and sank off the Queensland coast with six crewmen on board.
Police divers spent most of Saturday making repeated dives to the wreck, which is choked with debris, finding the bodies of two of the missing fishermen.
Police have stopped operations for the day but plan to return to the wreck site on Sunday to keep searching for the four other missing fishermen.
Officers earlier used sonar equipment to locate the Dianne about two to three nautical miles off Round Hill Headland on Friday afternoon.
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Skipper Ben Leahy, 45, and crew members Adam Hoffman, 30, Eli Tonks, 39, Adam Bidner, 33, Chris Sammut, 34, and Zach Feeney, 28 are presumed dead after the vessel capsized and sank in treacherous conditions near the town of 1770 on Monday night.
Ruben McDornan is the sole known survivor.
Families of the missing men on Friday chartered two vessels to join authorities in their efforts to locate the men's bodies.
Four sailors have meanwhile revealed how they came to the rescue of Mr McDornan.
Exhausted, injured and wearing only a pair of boardshorts, Mr McDornan spent hours treading water after the vessel sank to the sea floor.
He was reunited with his wife and mum in Gladstone on Thursday.
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