Appeal for volunteers to search shore for bodies of missing men

ALL available resources are to be focused into an intensive shore search in Waterford this weekend as it is more likely the bodies of missing fishermen may wash ashore on those days.

“A body comes to the surface after eight to nine days depending on the temperature,” said Eamon O’Neill, a long-time friend of Honeydew II skipper Ger Bohan.

“It happens because the body releases gases which bring it up for a time and then it sinks again and the same thing happens at approximately 21 days.”