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Fri 01 Jan 2007Dive teams study trawler design in rescue bidA Naval Service dive team has obtained design drawings of the sunken trawler Pere Charles and is devising a strategy to gain access to the vessel and search for the bodies of its missing crew as soon as there is a reasonable break in the bad weather.According to Lieut Cdr Terry Ward of the Naval Service, the dive teams are still hoping to get down to the Pere Charles next week and enter the vessel to clear away debris and search for the bodies of its five fishermen.