‘It was like ‘The Perfect Storm,’ but with a better ending:’ rescued fisherman
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — One of five fishermen plucked from churning, windswept seas said he felt like they had become trapped in a scene straight out of The Perfect Storm as winds and waves lashed their fishing boat far off Newfoundland.
Frank Brown was with four other crew aboard the Northern Provider on Sunday when a vicious storm came on quickly about 150 nautical miles northeast of St. John’s.
Brown said the setting was much like the 2000 George Clooney movie that chronicled the demise of the Andrea Gail fishing boat, which was lost near the Flemish Cap off Newfoundland with all its crew in a raging 1991 storm.
“It was like a scene from the movie ‘The Perfect Storm,’ but with a better ending,” he said.