Eighteen Ukrainian sailors were feared dead Monday after they were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat in Hong Kong for nearly 40 hours amid strong currents, a salvage company said. "Their chances for survival are very slim," spokesman Zhang Jianwen of China's Guangzhou Salvage Bureau told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Divers were searching for bodies, and a Chinese salvage boat was stabilizing the Ukrainian tugboat and preparing it for a move from its current depth of 115 feet to shallower waters to ease rescue efforts, Zhang said. Strong currents were hindering those efforts, government spokeswoman Heidi Liu said.

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