NEW-WES-VALLEY, N.L. — There was a powerful word being repeated in the joyful Newfoundland community of New-Wes-Valley on Sunday: 'Miracle.
NEW-WES-VALLEY, N.L. — There was a powerful word being repeated in the joyful Newfoundland community of New-Wes-Valley on Sunday:"Miracle."
In New-Wes-Valley, which is an amalgamation of three small fishing communities along Newfoundland's northeast coast, people braced for the worst. Fishing is among Canada's deadliest professions, and tragedy is a common thread linking people in fishing communities across Atlantic Canada. He put out three distress calls, he said, but they weren't answered."The fire probably melted the devices, stuff like that, wouldn't allow it."
Fisher Toby Peddle said he was terrified as he lept from the burning fishing boat onto the life-raft. He can't swim, he said in an interview, and he didn't have a survival suit on. The hardest moments came when the men could hear helicopters flying overhead and knew the pilots couldn't see them through the fog.
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