The bracing sea air that once carried prayers of hopefulness now hangs heavy with sorrow and grief as the news hits home.
When the confirmation of the five Titanic tourists’ deaths permeated throughout this colourful coastal city, it delivered a gut-wrenching blow to St John’s.
The small slivers of hope, which had remained after the five men’s oxygen supplies ran out, quickly dissipated, brutally exchanged for the reality we all refused to accept.
