The Lighthouse Keeper of Peggy's Cove

In 1998, when Swissair Flight 111 crashed into the Atlantic just off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, it was the local fishermen who responded first. They had spent their whole lives reading the water — every shift in current, every change in wind. That September night, they heard the distant thunder of impact and knew immediately something was terribly wrong. While others slept, these men launched their boats into black, churning seas.…