Word: poirier
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...itching to get back out there," Poirier says on a brief shore leave after 10 straight days of diving at the crash site. While on break, he sent an e-mail to the Swiss embassy website, offering condolences to the families and promising that divers were doing their best. Being of service, he says, "is all that keeps us sane...
Handsome and broad-shouldered, a proud French Canadian, Poirier speaks in the comfort of a favorite pub not far from the Shearwater military base where he lives, across the bay from Halifax. The father of three worries about the next time his children will get on a plane...
Another diver enters the pub with a glazed smile that might be exhaustion or maybe the relief of seeing someone else who knows what's down there. "This is my best friend," says Poirier, hugging Richard Lafreniere, 35. Ordinarily they train to repair battle-damaged ships and clear mines. There is no training for what they're doing...
...helps, they agree, that so few bodies are whole. It's easier not seeing the human form. Near closing time, Poirier says he found a wallet floating on the surface. A woman's. He later saw a newspaper story quoting her relatives, and that made it harder. It made her whole...
...Poirier knows about the relatives who still go to the water's edge in Peggy's Cove, where the salvage boats are etched in gray on a soft horizon, and toss flowers into the sea. He says he'll dive through December if necessary...