A major search for the missing crew of an overturned cargo ship has been suspended for a second day.
Two helicopters, four lifeboats and five coastguard rescue teams have been looking for the eight people who were on the Cypriot-registered Cemfjord.
A spokeswoman for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said "every effort" was being made to find them.
The Marine Accident Investigation Board (MAIB) has also deployed a team to investigate.
The search was sparked on Saturday after the crew of a passenger ferry raised the alarm when they spotted the upturned hull of the vessel in the Pentland Firth, off the north coast of Scotland.
After darkness fell it was called off in the evening and resumed on Sunday morning, although passing vessels were asked to scan the area, between Orkney and John O'Groats, overnight.
German shipping company Brise of Hamburg confirmed that there were eight people on the ship, seven Poles and one Filipino.
A spokesman for the company said: "No distress call was received from the vessel. Bad weather prevailed in the area at the time and conditions remain difficult at the scene, with storm force winds."
Shetland Coastguard was alerted by the NorthLink ferry Hrossey which spotted the vessel around 10 miles east of the Pentland Skerries, about 15 miles from Wick.
The 83-metre bulk cement carrier had been bound for Runcorn, Cheshire, on the west coast of the UK. She was carrying 2,000 tons of cement.
Originally posted at 9.43am
