The search resumed this morning for the bodies of seven men from two trawlers that sank off the south coast over a fortnight ago.
Hopes are fading that the men's bodies will be found after navy divers yesterday failed to find anything despite searching the living quarters of the Pere Charles.
Dave McMyler, of the Irish Coast Guard, said "the eating area, the accommodation area, the toilet and most of the shelter deck" were searched and that divers had "got to most of the fish hold" during four separate dives but "there is nothing to report".
The second trawler at the centre of the tragedy, the Kinsale-based Honeydew II,is lying some 3.6 miles south east of Ram's Head between Ardmore and Dungarvan, Co Waterford.
The trawler went missing with two crewmen on board - skipper Ger Bohan and his Polish crewmate Tomasz Jagla.
A naval diving team were scheduled to resume searching this morning.
The wreck of the Pere Charleslies just over two miles off Hook Head in Co Wexford, some four miles from its home port of Dunmore East, Co Waterford.
The wreck of the 20-metre twin rig trawler was detected over a week ago, but bad weather prevented diving since the boat sank on January 11th.
On board were skipper Tom Hennessy (32), a father of one originally from the Maharees in Co Kerry; his uncle and fellow Kerryman Pat Hennessy (48), single; Billy O'Connor (50), a father of five from Dunmore East; Pat Coady (27), father of one from Duncormick, Co Wexford; and Andriy Dyrin (32), married with one child from Sevastopol in Ukraine.