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‘Fighting for his life’: Fisherman recounts harrowing rescue from waters off Malpeque

Cold and exhausted after treading water for more than two hours in the rough ocean waters off Malpeque, P.E.I., without a life jacket, Mike Day says he was was relieved to look up and see a big yellow helicopter stop overhead and a rescuer descend toward him. “I was getting cold and my leg was on the verge of cramping up,” he said in an interview Thursday, two days after the harrowing ordeal. “Once the rescue swimmer came down, I just kind of relaxed a little bit and I was glad.” >click to read<19:12