Navy divers will today use a diving chamber to search the wreckage of a sunken trawler for a west Cork fisherman who was lost when the vessel went down early on Thursday morning just outside Courtmacsherry Bay.
A team of eight navy divers carried out three sweeps of the Rosses Morn in 40 metres of water yesterday, but failed to recover the body of the boat's engineer, Mr Patrick Murphy, a father of five in his 50s from Eyries on the Beara peninsula.
It is thought that Mr Murphy may have failed to get off the trawler after staying to send a final distress call when the boat started taking in water near the Seven Heads at the mouth of Courtmacsherry Bay at around 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The boat's captain, Mr David O'Driscoll from Castletownbere, managed to make it into a life-raft and was later picked up by an Irish Marine Emergency Services helicopter from Shannon.