Sable Island, one of Canada’s farthest offshore islands, is an isolated and rugged place. But for the world’s biggest breeding colony of grey seals, it’s the ideal winter home. In 1960 ...

Wild horses on Sable Island. (Justine Ammendolia photo) Ammendolia, a PhD candidate in Dal's School for Resource and Environmental Studies and a National Geographic explorer, spent two five-week field ...

Its last reported position was 63 kilometres southwest of Sable Island. The boat also had an emergency distress beacon known as an EPIRB but it was not triggered.