‘These are the risks that we take’: search goes on for missing fishermen
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Walking the floor boards with worry and praying for a miracle: it’s a sadly repeated ritual in Newfoundland where the sea gives life and, just as swiftly, takes it away.
“We live that life and that’s who we are,” said Johanna Ryan Guy, as the search for two of four men who went missing from a capsized fishing boat continued Thursday near St. John’s.
Bodies of the other two men were recovered after the seven-metre craft was reported overturned Tuesday night near Cape Spear. All were from the close community of Shea Heights, where grieving residents say it’s beyond tragic that three generations of one family were on that boat.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax said Thursday evening that after “exhaustive” efforts to find the two unaccounted for crew members, involving several coast guard ships and military aircraft, search efforts were being turned over to the RCMP.