The raising of the Breton fishing trawler Bugaled Breizh is being dogged by difficulties. Waves up to nine feet high are delaying the salvage operation off The Lizard, where the trawler sank in January following what some believe to have been a "hit and run" incident.

According to the French news agency AFP, a cable linking a salvage crane and the Bugaled Breizh snapped as the wrecked fishing boat was being raised to the surface on Monday evening.

The raising of the wreck, which may still hold the remains of three of the five crew who died when she sank, is a joint operation involving the French Navy and a Dutch salvage company.

A specialist vessel, fitted with a crane capable of raising the trawler, is now at Falmouth Docks awaiting a change in the weather. The trawler may be taken to a sheltered bay near Falmouth before being transported by barge to Brest.

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