BATH – A dive team Friday reached the cabin of a crane that toppled from a barge into the Kennebec River at Bath Iron Works one day earlier but found no sign of the Delaware man who was operating the crane when it fell.

Bath Police Department Lt. Joel Merry said search and recovery efforts had been suspended. He said the state marine patrol would coordinate further checks of the river when conditions made that possible.

The missing man, 48-year-old Steven Oldham of Felton, Del., is presumed dead.

The barge and crane belonged to Weeks Marine of Cranford, N.J., a subcontractor for Atkinson Construction Co.

Atkinson is a subcontractor for Clark Builders of Maine, the general contractor hired by Bath Iron Works to construct a $240 million overhaul of the shipyard on the river, said Clark spokeswoman Louise Pullizzi.

A second crane worker, William Larkins, 43, of Epping, N.H., was pulled out of the 45-degree water Thursday by the operator of a small construction boat that was nearby.

“Our first concern is for the safety of the personnel, and we are making every effort to account for the missing person,” Clark Builders of Maine LLC said in a statement Thursday night.

Larkins, who was the crane’s oiler, suffered a head bruise and was treated and at Mid Coast Hospital’s Urgent Care Center in Bath.

Merry said Larkins was wearing a life preserver. Oldham also was believed to have been wearing a vest.

Paul Champlin, safety manager for Clark Builders of Maine LLC, accompanied Larkin to the hospital. Larkin described “a loud, cracking sound and the next thing he knew he was in the river. He just said, ‘Thank God I’m still alive,”‘ Champlin said.

Oldham and Larkins were using the crane to dredge an area of the river where a new, floating dry dock will rest. The dry dock is expected to arrive in Maine in late January, according to BIW spokeswoman Susan Pierter.

Bath Fire Chief Leverett Mitchell said Weeks is planning to bring a crane from New Jersey to help raise the submerged crane.