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Two hours north of Aberdeen, Rosehearty is one in a cluster of small Scottish fishing communities on the edge of the North Sea. Battered by the dark waters that have caused untold losses of boats and men, the people here have long accepted a cruel bargain: the ocean gives fishermen...
But this is changing. In a town where hearts once stood firm against nature's capriciousness, a lawsuit now demands human accountability. On April 10, 2002, a fishing boat called the Radiant foundered in the North Atlantic. Its life craft capsized, and only one of six life jackets inflated properly...
Beedie, 32, a fisherman since he was 16, sits awkwardly in his living room amid a mess of pink toys, dolls and DVDs belonging to his three young daughters. He was reared in a code of strength and guts, yet now he speaks of being "spooked by the sea." His...
Launched in 2001, the Radiant was one of Scotland's newest fishing boats, with the highest safety rating available. But when its nets became tangled with a seabed obstruction, its powerful winches anchored it to the seabed, causing the craft to list and take on water, according to a government...
Indeed, even Beedie's own family seems ambivalent about the suit. He and Downie, his 22-year-old fellow plaintiff, both come from a long line of fishermen, and their fathers were together on a boat that sank in 1980. Nobody died in that wreck, and nobody thought to file...