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Wed 01 Jan 2007Naval Service accused of failing to monitor signalling systemA trawler skipper and close friend of missing Kinsale fisherman Ger Bohan has accused the Naval Service of failing to properly monitor a signalling system which would have alerted them much earlier to the disappearance of Mr Bohan's boat.John Walsh, skipper of the Rachel J which had been fishing with the Honeydew II, questioned why the Naval Service's vessel monitoring system (VMS) failed to pick up that the Honeydew II had disappeared in the early hours of January 12th.