From the Newsroom: The Providence JournalTape Two: Floating
Redemption: The fall and rise of Mark Gonsalves
The moon had set, leaving only stars above as Friday, June 26, 2015, began. Dawn was nearing when Mark Gonsalves, 44, left his apartment near the Newp…23 clip(s)
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As Gonsalves had floated, thinking some creature might have saved him, he looked up at the Pell Bridge, its lights glittering.
Why hasn’t someone seen my car? he wondered. No one’s in it. Why haven’t they called the police?
He did not, at first, see the Wellcraft 26 or the woman and two men aboard. But they saw him.
Nichols jumped in and brought Gonsalves to the back of the boat, where he and Poland managed to get him onto the transom and from there, struggling, onto a seat.
“I asked him if he jumped off the bridge,” Brophy told police. “He said ‘yes.’ Then he kept saying, ‘I’m so cold.’”
