Police divers have suspended their search for the bodies of three generations of the Greene family after this morning returning to the wreckage of their sunken fishing boat off the Co Down coast.
Poor weather conditions near Kilkeel and the need for specialist underwater search equipment brought a halt to the proposed search this morning.
The search will begin again when the specialist equipment arrives next week, a Police spokesman said.
Michael Greene (54), his son (33) and grandson (10) who were also called Michael Green went missing after they failed to return from a fishing trip off the Co Down coast last month.
The wreckage of their 10-metre vessel the Tullaghmurray Lasswas found 130 feet below the sea. It was discovered after fishery protection service vessel the Ken Vicars located an object yesterday on the sea bed several miles off Kilkeel.
After weeks of intensive searches, the boat was found on Friday off the Co Down coast by police divers 130ft below the sea.
The Greens had left their home in Kilkeel on February 14 on a fishing expedition.
Searchers finally came across the wreck after a fishery protection service vessel, the Ken Vickers, located an object on the sea bed seven miles off Kilkeel on Thursday.
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