Weather halts efforts to raise wreck of Pere Charles
Operations to raise the sunken trawler Pere Charles from the seabed off the Co Wexford coast have been temporarily suspended this morning due to bad weather.
According to a Coastguard spokesman, salvage efforts should resume later today, once wind and wave conditions ease.
A Dutch salvage team and Irish divers have been working since yesterday to lift the sunken vessel.
They hope to complete the operation today.
The trawler sank near Hook Head in January, with the loss of five crew members.
The salvage team has already raised the wreck of another vessel, the Maggie B, which sank in the same area in March 2006, claiming two lives.
