The Hill Times
OTTAWA—The homecoming of the 'Lucky Seven' was something to behold. A crowd gathered in New-Wes-Valley, N.L., to celebrate the impossible: their men had survived. After three days lost at sea, hope was beginning to run out while a massive ocean search continued. But the seven fishers of the Elite Navigator were sighted, and the message came back. “They are alive.” Every fisher’s family dreads the possibility of them being lost at sea.
Lighting fire to the sinking ship, they hoped the smoke would be seen. They then struck out toward Nova Scotia and the lighthouse at St. Paul’s Island, which they figured, by dead reckoning, would be the closest point of land. By their charts and navigational knowledge, they figured it was a 100 mile walk. The march was slow because they were up and down rafted ice. They dragged the dory by day and huddled under canvas at night while Atlantic winds howled around them.
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