The police have found and searched the boat which capsized on Monday last week with a Glen Innes man on board. They say the bodies of two of the six men missing were in the wreckage. The search for the other four continues off the coast of central Queensland.
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At the time of writing, the identity of those discovered had not been made public.
One of the missing is thirty-nine-year-old Eli Tonks who went to Glen Innes High School and who was about to get married to his Canadian fiancee.
The police said that “the window of survivability has now passed”.
They said on Monday that the search for the remaining missing would continue with police using sonar equipment and aircraft.
“Despite a painstaking and thorough research which has involved the clearing of a large amount of debris, no further bodies were located inside,” a statement said.
The family of the six crew have been advised of today’s developments.”
Eli Tonks was well liked in Glen Innes. Everybody agreed he was extraordinarily good looking and a generous and friendly person.
His Facebook shows him as a lover of adventure. He’s pictured climbing and clinging to rock faces as well as walking across waterfalls on thin planks or riding an elephant through water. His adventurous spirit took him to places as diverse as the mountains of Peru to the Philippines.
He was engaged to Ana James, a Canadian from Calgary in Alberta.
