HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Four more bodies were found early Friday among debris from a helicopter carrying 10 people that went down in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, the Coast Guard said.
Friday's discovery raises to eight the number of victims found. The Coast Guard said the search for the other two was continuing.
The twin-engine helicopter, owned by Era Aviation and chartered by the oil company Unocal, was headed to a ship owned by an offshore drilling company when it vanished Tuesday evening.
The first bodies were found about 60 miles south of Galveston on Wednesday.
Friday morning, a private ship helping out in the search located pieces of the helicopter's wreckage about 70 miles south of Galveston, Coast Guard Petty Officer Andy Kendrick said. A remote camera was sent to search the water, and the four bodies were spotted between 100 feet and 150 feet below the surface.
"They are currently being recovered," Kendrick said. "We are going to do it as quickly as we possibly can."
A jet, a helicopter and a patrol boat from the Coast Guard, as well as various private ships and aircraft continue searching for the other two individuals, Kendrick said.
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