A long-time search and rescue advocate is renewing his call for a federal inquiry into fishing vessel safety and more search and rescue resources in Labrador.
Merv Wiseman of SEA-NL was responding to Jeannette Russell’s impassioned speech at a Safety in Fish Harvesting Industry conference in St. John’s this week.
Russell is the mother of Marc Russell who, along with crewmate Joey Jenkins, disappeared on a fishing trip out of Mary’s Harbour last year. Their bodies and their vessel, the Island Lady, were never recovered.
Wiseman says the lives of mariners off Labrador are as important as those of mariners off Newfoundland and search and rescue resources must reflect that.
SEA-NL says a map of SAR lifeboat stations in the province show none based in Labrador.
