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...moved an inch, and always knowing that capsizing in the 45[degree]F water would mean "starting to die within minutes." By landing triumphantly in Buzzards Bay, Wheeler brought the great auk back from extinction, at least in the human imagination. PBS featured his trip on its Nova science show; a recounting of the voyage by professional storyteller Jay O'Callahan continues to delight and move thousands of listeners each year; schoolchildren from Nova Scotia to Fiji retrace Wheeler's journey in their classrooms...
Memorial services for Dr. Jonathan M. Mann '69, former professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) and victim in the September 2 Swissair Flight 111 crash over Nova Scotia, were held yesterday at the SPH's Kresge Cafeteria...
...prepare for the first dive, no experience to lean on. Rene Poirier said a Hail Mary; that was his preparation. And then Poirier, a 36-year-old master seaman in the Canadian Navy, descended into the wreckage of Swissair Flight 111 off the coast of Nova Scotia...
...pilot's voice was calm, but his distress call described one of an aviator's worst fears: "We have smoke in the cockpit." Eleven minutes later, his radio fell silent, and six minutes after that, Swissair Flight 111 slammed into the Atlantic Ocean off Nova Scotia, killing all 229 people onboard. While the cause of that Sept. 2 crash has not yet been determined, investigators have discovered indications of a fire in an electronics compartment below the cockpit, and the presence of smoke made the crash seem eerily similar to that of ValuJet Flight 592 in the Florida Everglades...
Peggy's Cove was born of a shipwreck. Legend has it that the tiny hamlet on the coast of Nova Scotia was named for a woman pulled back from death at sea by a local sailor. The only survivor of a doomed ship, she was nursed back to health by her rescuer. They fell in love and married. Such romances and heartening miracles are woven into the visions of the village. At St. John's Anglican Church, two paintings that frame the altar serve as fonts of meditation: in one, a fisherman clinging to a tattered sail searches...