Hopes that bodies are on board sunken vessel

NAVAL divers will make efforts again today to search the 21-metre, steel-hulled trawler the Tit Bonhomme, which is lying in a gully near Adam’s Island at the entrance to Glandore Harbour, in the hope the bodies of its five missing crew will be found on board.

The vessel sank at about 6am on Sunday when weather conditions were said to be nasty, but not unusually so.

Coastguard co-ordinator Gerard O’Flynn said it was “pure speculation” as to whether or not the bodies would be on board.