Newfoundland fishing crew survives days lost at sea [Video]

There was a powerful word being repeated in the joyful Newfoundland community of New-Wes-Valley on Sunday: “Miracle.”

Over and over, residents out walking or chatting to one another in local stores said the fact seven fishermen from the area had somehow survived roughly 48 hours in a life-raft in the Atlantic ocean and were found by search-and-rescue crews was nothing short of miraculous.

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Daphne Crocker leaned over her balcony and spread out her hands.

“What a mighty God we serve,” she said about the fishermen coming home.

The Elite Navigator fishing boat and its crew seemed to vanish on Wednesday night after several days at sea fishing for turbot. The craft was reported missing on Thursday after transmitting its final signal at around 8:30 p.m. the night before, the Canadian Coast Guard said. The …