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| The search for four British sailors missing in the Atlantic Ocean since Friday has resumed. | The search for four British sailors missing in the Atlantic Ocean since Friday has resumed. |
| The US Coast Guard confirmed it had begun searching again after an online petition gathered 200,000 signatures. | |
| Cheeki Rafiki, the 40ft racing yacht, was sailing from a regatta in Antigua back to the UK when it got into difficulties. The initial search was called off on Sunday. | |
| Prime Minister David Cameron thanked the coastguard for its response. | |
| Contact with the yacht was lost on Friday after the boat began taking on water and diverted to the Azores. | |
| The four missing crew members are Paul Goslin, 56, from West Camel, Somerset; Andrew Bridge, 22, from Farnham, Surrey, the yacht's skipper; Steve Warren, 52, also from Somerset, and 23-year-old James Male, from Southampton. | |
| Mr Warren's son-in-law, Dan Carpenter, said: "We are holding out hope. We are aware that it is still a long shot but while there is some hope, we are concentrating on that." | |
| Earlier, the US Coast Guard's UK counterpart said the rescuers "did everything they could". | |
| 'You never know' | |
| The Americans had said the estimated survival time past the time of distress was approximately 20 hours and that their crews had searched for 53 hours. | |
| But the decision to resume searching came after family members insisted they could still be alive in the yacht's 12-man life raft. | |
| Skipper Mr Bridge's grandmother Valerie said: "We are delighted. It is at least something and that is all we were asking for, all we wanted was another search. | |
| "It might not come to anything but people want them to do it and they are trying. It seemed too quick, just two days and we were saying 'if only they could do it for a bit longer'. You never know what could happen." | |
| The men's families met Foreign Office Minister Hugh Robertson in London while Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, one of the sailor's local MP, tweeted his appeal to the US Coast Guard to keep searching. |