'Never give up hope,' say friends of missing Labrador fishermen, as search enters 5th day
CBC
On Tuesday afternoon, four men stood on the empty spot where the Island Lady fishing boat should be and poured a little bit of beer out for their missing friends.
Jonah Smith, Colin Rumbolt, Donovan Johnson and Patrick Hopkins were quiet on the wharf as they looked toward the ocean. The four grew up with Marc Russell and Joey Jenkins, the two fishermen from Mary's Harbour who went missing at sea over the weekend.
The search for Russell and Jenkins is now in its fifth day.
The two fishermen, and the Island Lady, were last seen on Friday. They were due back in Mary's Harbour that evening, but never arrived. Instead, a VHF radio call about an overdue boat rang out throughout their small community.
Other fish harvesters immediately took to the waters and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre led the search over the weekend. At 9 p.m. Sunday, the JRCC called off its search, leaving it in the hands of the RCMP as a recovery mission.
The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Coast Guard overruled that and offered the RCMP military air support and coast guard assets. On Tuesday, three aircraft — one from the province and two from the military — searched from above while boats were on the water.
Smith, Rumbolt, Johnson and Hopkins had been searching until 4 a.m. on Tuesday, and were taking a break to support each other in the early afternoon.
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