It has been almost two years since that awful night, December 8, 2006, when hockey legend Bob Gainey got the phone call that told him his daughter, Laura, was missing in the turbulent waters of the Atlantic."

the fifth estate investigated Laura's death and first broadcast its findings on November 28, 2007. In that report, Overboard, the fifth estate told the story of a ship that had sailed too late in the season, was undermanned, and did not follow basic safety rules.

On October 30, 2008, the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) released its long-awaited report on the death at sea of Laura Gainey. The findings of the report confirm what the fifth estate reported in its documentary.

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Laura Gainey was a crewmember on the tall ship Picton Castle when she was swept overboard as the ship sailed through a fierce storm and high seas on a voyage from Nova Scotia to Grenada. Laura's death was headline news across the country. In the days that followed, the explanation of how this could have happened seemed simple enough — the 25-year-old Laura had been an unfortunate victim, in the wrong place at the wrong time, swept away by a "rogue wave." The fact that she wasn't wearing a safety harness or even a life preserver didn't raise many questions at the time.

But Gillian Findlay and a fifth estate team, obtained eyewitness accounts of other crewmembers aboard the Picton Castle as well as videotape from that fateful voyage. They also obtained copies of not one, but two, conflicting reports that were commissioned to investigate the incident. Reports that had never been made public. The first was critical of the Picton Castle, but that report was shelved and a second — called by some a cover-up — was written, praising the ship and putting much of the responsibility for the accident on Laura.

But, Laura's father, Bob Gainey, was not about to accept that conclusion and he embarked on a fight to have the truth about his daughter's death, revealed. The result, the TSB's report, confirmed the findings of the fifth estate documentary as well as the conclusions of the first report.

Now, hear what Bob Gainey has to say about his face-to-face meeting with the Picton Castle's captain and about the Gainey family's long fight to establish the truth about Laura's death. "I think there was a point in time where they knew we weren't going away," he tells Gillian Findlay. "This is a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided."