The body was found in the captain's office on the second floor of the vessel, said an official with the rescue and salvage bureau under China's Ministry of Communications Tuesday evening.

On Monday, Chinese divers recovered the first body of a crew member.

By Tuesday evening, Chinese rescuers had found three bodies of the 16 crew members of the ROK ship, but only managed to salvage two of them.

The ROK ship, "Golden Rose", which was loaded with 5,900 tons of steel, sank around 3:00 a.m. last Saturday off the coast of Yantai after it crashed in heavy fog with the "Jinsheng", a freighter operated by Shandong Lufeng Shipping Company Ltd. The "Jinsheng" is registered in Saint Vincent.

Of the 16 sailors from the "Golden Rose," eight are ROK nationals, seven from Myanmar and one from Indonesia, according to figures from the Ministry of Communications.

More than 300 Chinese ships and three aircraft, as well as 30 experienced divers and a diving vessel, have taken part in the search for the missing sailors. China has invited the ROK to send its own rescue boats and coast guard vessels.