A diver carries oxygen tanks to a boat as they prepare to recover bodies of the passengers of a capsized tourist boat at Chalong pier in Phuket, Thailand, Saturday, July 7, 2018. Thai authorities on Friday evening suspended the search for missing tourists who were on the boat that sank during a storm off the southern resort island of Phuket. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
PHUKET, Thailand  — Divers who entered the wreck of a tour boat that sank in a storm off the southern Thai resort island of Phuket described heart-breaking scenes of bodies of children found in the arms of their mothers, as a search resumed Saturday for some 23 mostly Chinese tourists missing.
The death toll from Thursday’s tragedy hit 33, all of them Chinese nationals, in Thai tourism’s biggest disaster in years.
“It’s very difficult to see … it’s traumatic, it’s tragic but the best thing to do, our job as divers, is to bring back the bodies to their families,” diver Philip Entremont told reporters before resuming the search Saturday.

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