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He’d wake up from nightmares gasping for air.
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On Christmas Day, Pearson got home from work after piloting the tugboat Ingenika from Kitimat to Kemano, a trip that typically took him away from Prince Rupert for a day or two. Over breakfast with his family, he talked about making changes.
“The conditions in the winter were just too much,” said his wife, Judy Carlick-Pearson. “He wasn’t happy anymore.”
Pearson had recently asked his employer, Wainwright Marine Services, if he could work out of the company’s Prince Rupert yard instead of Kitimat. The couple had started an auto-detailing shop a month earlier and were waiting for it to generate enough income for Pearson to leave Wainwright all together.