Appeal for divers in Cork trawler search

Updated: 22:51, Thursday, 26 January 2012

An appeal is being made for any experienced search and rescue divers to make themselves available over the coming weekend.

1 of 1Divers are still searching for Michael Hayes and Saied Ali Eldin
Divers are still searching for Michael Hayes and Saied Ali Eldin

The search for the two missing trawlermen has wound down for the evening.

However, an appeal is being made for any experienced search and rescue divers to make themselves available for a ramped up search over the coming weekend.

It's now 12 days since the Tit Bonhomme sank in Glandore Harbour.

Plans are being drawn up for a concentrated dive on Saturday and Sunday within a triangular area near Adams Rock, where the sunken trawler lies.

An extensive air and sea search continued again throughout the day.

The Irish coastguard rescue helicopter scanned the waters from above and small boats continued to trawl the many inlets in the bay, as coastguard and civil defence teams continued searching the fore shore.

Weather conditions are set to improve over the next two days.

The trawler's skipper Michael Hayes and Egyptian crewman Saied Ali Eldin remain missing.

The bodies of three men have been recovered by divers in the past week.

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