search and rescue teams worked throughout the night and the recovery operation continues today ortiz tom barton is monitoring the efforts. the hunt is still on going for any possible survivors the count that the emergencies ministry has set up behind me next to the volga on a small beach here small boats keep coming to and from this site and they're part of the largest search effort this is screening the area where the guerrier river pleasure cruiser sank to try and find any people either still in the water although that looks looking increasingly unlikely now or scattered on some of the small islands around where the boat sank we heard from one of their spokesman earlier about what they found when they reached the scene of the sunken pleasure cruiser we knocked on the boats whole and waited for an answer but unfortunately there was nothing the flashlights into the cargo hold so the restrooms and they sealed bodies there but the scene that unfolded yesterday was one of a a quiet sunday afternoon river cruise along the volga many many people do this is very popular among tourists in the summer t

hundred eight passengers no chance of escape in one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters ortiz tom barton reports from the site of a catastrophe as if to demonstrate just how difficult recovering the ball gary is going to be the cable holding it just snapped with a nor mighty buying but crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whips up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps that were later to be put under it it serves to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable they'd previously been trying to turn the ship around to get into position in order that they could right the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's a lot of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by.

controllers to set sail claiming the number on board to be just twenty instead of two hundred ortiz tom barton brings us the latest from the disaster site . the first arrests have been made and this is starting to move beyond just a disaster recovery operation the two people that have been arrested so far. she is the owner of the company that rented the ball daria for what would be its final voyage also. he is a state expert on shipping and sometime before that voyage he said that the area was fit to sail and so perhaps was negligent in that decision divers are still working in teams in our in our out in a on a platform out in the river over the sunken bulgaria it's now estimated there are around a dozen bodies left to be recovered divers have explored most of the ship now there might be some places left where bodies could be but it is possible that some of those bodies may know may not be in the ship they may be in the water around the ship and in a worst case scenario currents may have carried some of the bodies up to two hundred kilometers downstream there's also been revelations added to t