A report for Good Evening
Ulster following the dramatic sinking of a boat which was carrying one of
Northern Ireland's most famous sporting sons, Joey Dunlop, to compete at the
Isle of Man TT. The former fishing boat, Tornamona, was carrying 13 people and
a number of motorbikes when it was forced onto rocks in Strangford Lough.
Everyone on board was rescued by the Portaferry lifeboat but the ship sank. In
the days afterwards a rescue mission was launched to retrieve the bikes before
the salty waters damaged them and the report shows them being brought back to
land after a team of divers located them on the wreck.
Dunlop
himself is interviewed about the terror of the sinking in the night and his
fears that he wasn't going to make it. Dunlop, world champion road racer at the
time, shrugged off the incident and went onto to win races in three categories
at the event on his way to securing another world title.