A second body, and one that has been identified as belonging to a member of the F/V Ash, was found near Cape Blanco Lighthouse on Wednesday.

The Curry County Sheriff's Office identified the body as that of Mark Daniel Wagner, 40, of Port Orford.

Another body was found on Christmas day and recovered on Tuesday. The identification process still is under way.

Lt. Dennis Dinsmore said Wednesday that the office is working to match dental records and X-rays, a process that began even as the search for the crew was started. Identification likely will take a few days, possibly weeks, he said, but they presume it is one of the bodies of the commercial crabber that sank on Dec. 16.

The body was located about 5 miles north of Gold Beach in a cove and search-and-rescue volunteers had to wait out the weather and high tides to retrieve it on Tuesday.

Wagner was spotted Wednesday morning by Whale Watching Spoken Here volunteers at Cape Blanco, about 5 miles north of Port Orford and almost 40 miles from where the Ash sank.

Sheriff's office deputies and three members of the volunteer Curry County Search and Rescue team were able to use four-wheel-drive vehicles to access the beach and recover Wagner's body.

Officials identified Wagner's body through his tattoos and contacted the family members of all the crewmen.

The Ash, a 43-foot fiberglass commercial crab boat, sank after it was struck by storm-generated waves, just out of the mouth of the Rogue River at Gold Beach, according to witnesses. On the vessel were four Port Orford fishermen: captain Rob Ashdown and crewmen Josh Northcutt, Wagner and Louis Lobo. Searchers found only boat debris, survival suits and a life raft at the time of the sinking.

A memorial was held Saturday for the crew, and accounts have been set up for the families of the crewmen at Chetco Federal Credit Union in Port Orford and for a memorial for the crew of the Ash at Sterling Savings Bank.