DIVERS have recovered two bodies from the Irish trawler Tit Bonhomme which sank off the Cork coast last Sunday.
One has been identified as that of 21-year-old Kevin Kershaw from Dublin, who had gone out to see if he liked fishing. Earlier, the body of 26-year-old Attia Shaban was identified by one of his friends on the pier at Union Hall.
The Tit Bonhomme sank in heavy seas early on Sunday morning when one crew member - an Egyptian - managed to escape without serious injury. Skipper Michael Hayes, 52, and Egyptians Wael Mohammed and Saied Ali Eldin are still missing.
Mr Shaban had been in Ireland for two years and had recently moved to Skibbereen from Union Hall. He had no other family in Ireland and was from Borg Meghezel, which is in Kafr El Sheikh region of Egypt.
On Wednesday, the Garda and naval dive teams made what search co-ordinators from the Irish Coastguard described as ''significant progress'' during a series of dives around the vessel. The trawler appears to be wedged in a narrow inlet or cove and the wash and backwash on rocks on either side of it are said to be hampering the dive teams.
The Coastguard says this is one element of a comprehensive search which includes teams on the shore, trawlers outside and inside Glandore Harbour, helicopters from Shannon and Waterford and many smaller boats and kayaks checking dozens of narrow, isolated coves.
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