Spanish fishing vessel sinks off Newfoundland; 10 dead, 11 missing in icy Atlantic

Ten crew members confirmed dead with 11 missing from the 50-metre Spanish fishing vessel; three survivors rescued; crew included nationals from Spain, Peru, and Ghana.

In the early hours of a Tuesday morning, the Spanish fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo slipped beneath the North Atlantic some 460 kilometres east of St. John's, carrying with it the lives of men from Spain, Peru, and Ghana who had gone to sea as generations before them had done. Ten were confirmed dead by nightfall; eleven more remained unaccounted for in waters that have long demanded a reckoning from those who work them. Three survivors, found in a life raft by a fellow fishing vessel, stood as the fragile measure of what the sea had chosen to return. The search continued through the night, a

Spanish fishing vessel sinks off Newfoundland; 10 dead, 11 missing in icy Atlantic

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