Joy in Newfoundland After ‘Lucky 7′ Fishers Survive Harrowing Days Lost at Sea

NEW-WES-VALLEY, N.L.—There was a powerful word being repeated in the joyful Newfoundland community of New-Wes-Valley on Sunday: “Miracle.” Over and over, residents out walking or chatting to one another in local stores described the rescue of seven fishermen from the area who had somehow survived two days in a life-raft on the Atlantic ocean as nothing short of miraculous. “Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for returning our men,” Betty Lou Pollett told a crowd of hundreds at the end of a community parade held to celebrate the fishers’ return. The Elite Navigator fishing boat and its crew seemed to vanish on Wednesday night after several days at sea fishing for turbot. The craft was reported missing on Thursday after transmitting its final signal at around 8:30 p.m. the night before, the Canadian Coast Guard said. The vessel had caught fire, forcing the crew to abandon the ship and wait for rescue on the life-raft....