A body was recovered Friday from the wreckage of a sunken fishing vessel in the Sandy Hook Channel off the New Jersey coast, authorities said.
A private dive team located the body near buoy No. 14 off Middletown, said New Jersey State Police Capt. Stephen Jones.
The identity of the person hasn't been disclosed, but the search team had bee hired by the family of Tom Anderson, the missing captain of the boat "El Jefe."
The boat sank three days ago near the Sandy Hook peninsula. It was located Wednesday morning, but efforts to search it were called off because of dangerous currents.
Searchers began combing the water for the boat after getting a report of a distressed boat taking on water on Monday afternoon. Two young fishermen told NBC 4 New York that they saw the boat sinking, but there was nothing they could do.
The Belford Seafood Co-Op said in a Facebook post Tuesday night that Anderson had been docking his boat there recently and was thought to be on the ship alone when it began to sink.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Captain Tom Anderson tonight," the market said in the post.
The area is a shipping channel, and the depth average is about 50 feet. Because it's a channel, the water can go from four feet to 60 feet in a short distance, authorities said.
