For one family, the mourning can finally begin. For another, the agonising wait continues.

Divers from all over the country are volunteering to help the devastated wife of a missing skipper find his body.

Offers of help flooded in from all over Ireland yesterday after an emotional appeal from the wife of one of two missing fishermen.

The grieving father of the youngest victim of the Tit Bonhomme sinking told mourners at his son’s requiem Mass he hoped the sea would give up the bodies of the two remaining missing crewmen.