A fatal accident inquiry was also told that rescue workers heard two voices from the party which encountered difficulties in thick fog in Loch Awe, Argyll, for more than an hour as they waited for a boat to get there.
Firefighters listened to the last cries of fishermen from the banks of a loch because they had no water safety training to go in to save them.
A fatal accident inquiry was also told that rescue workers heard two voices from the party which encountered difficulties in thick fog in Loch Awe, Argyll, for more than an hour as they waited for a boat to get there.