A family s heartache and the frustrating push to talk more about workplace deaths
Ryan Durling’s death was one of 44 acute workplace fatalities in Nova Scotia in five years. During the same time frame, 45 people died in the rest of Atlantic Canada due to injuries suffered while they were working.
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Posted: Apr 08, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 8
Craig (Jumbo) Sock of Elsipogtog First Nation is missing at sea and presumed dead after his fishing boat sank on Saturday. (Submitted by Derek Sock)
As Derek Sock raced to his brother s sinking fishing boat on Saturday, Craig Sock was fighting to save his shipmates in the frigid waters 16 nautical miles off the coast of Nova Scotia.
The Tyhawk was making its second run of the day to set snow crab traps when it began to take on water. As the crew tried to ready the life raft, the Tyhawk suddenly capsized, trapping Jumbo, as Craig Sock of Elsipogtog First Nation was known, and another man in the wheelhouse.
HALIFAX — As a snowstorm descended on Nova Scotia and the search for five missing scallop fishermen was suspended Thursday, an industry leader said there was evidence to suggest their boat had . . .