PHUKET, Thailand (10 Mar 2009) — Thai police said Tuesday they would suspend at sunset their search for the remaining members of a missing scuba diving party, including foreigners, and resume the hunt the next day. The body of a white woman, described by police as European, was found 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) off the resort island of Phuket earlier Tuesday, two days after the boat capsized nearby in a storm. The result of an autopsy report confirming the woman's identity has not yet been released. "Since one dead body was found this morning and there has been no progress in the search for the remaining six, our team... will call off the search at sunset," Lieutenant Colonel Wallop Puangpaka of Phuket marine police told reporters. He said they would resume their hunt before 9:00am (0200 GMT) on Wednesday, with two helicopters alternating aerial searches of the area and a ship on standby nearby. But Wallop said the missing were unlikely to have survived until now, and were probably trapped inside the sunken vessel. The 60-foot (18-metre) diving boat, carrying 30 people including 19 foreigners, was reported missing Sunday night on its return from the Similan islands off southern Thailand. Police and navy rescued 23 passengers and crew on Monday afternoon but two Swiss nationals, two Austrians, a Japanese, a German and a Thai member of the crew remain missing. Frequent dive boat accidents in Thailand are often blamed on rough seas or overcrowding and poorly enforced safety standards. | 
