A “GARBLED message” just before 6am on a Sunday and lasting just over three minutes alerted Valentia marine rescue centre to the tragedy of the fishing vessel Tit Bonhomme.

THE Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) has found a litany of failures during its probe into the capsizing of a fishing vessel which sailed from Castletownbere.

An attempt will be made later this morning to refloat a trawler that has run aground off the west Cork port of Castletownbere.