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Identities of two men who died on fishing trip released

The identities of the two men who died while on a fishing trip on Friday or Saturday have been released.

The two men have been formally identified as Harold Clive Faragher, aged 66, from Bride, and Stewart Curphey, aged 66, from Andreas.

The men went fishing off the north of the island on Friday but did not return home.

The alarm was raised in the early hours of Saturday after friends and family failed to make any contact with them.

A massive search operation was co-ordinated by Liverpool Coastguard.

Three hundred and sixty square miles were searched by lifeboats from Ramsey, Peel and Portpatrick in Scotland, a helicopter from both RAF Valley in Anglesey and Prestwick Royal Navy Air Station, and a fixed-wing aircraft from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

Just after 6am on Saturday, an unturned flat-bottomed dinghy was found. One body was found at 1.30pm, with the other a few hours later.

Investigations continue as to the cause of the deaths and the matter has been referred to the coroner of inquests.


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