Man, 33, presumed drowned following Shuswap Lake speedboat incident
Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:30:36 +0000
Police in British Columbia are searching for a man who is presumed drowned after a boating mishap on Shuswap Lake west of Kamloops.
Marine Search and Rescue from Sicamous, RCMP and provincial ambulance services answered a call about an incident involving two large speedboats on the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake between Canoe and Sicamous on Sunday evening.
The boats were travelling east in tandem when one of them lost control, sending a man and a woman into the water.
People in the other boat pulled a 25-year-old woman from the water, and police say she was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Mounties and search and rescue personnel searched extensively for the man, who has been identified as 33-year-old Ryan Hartmann, until 2 a.m. on Monday.
RCMP say Hartmann is missing and presumed drowned, though local search and rescue continue to scour the area with air support.
Police have taken custody of the two speedboats as they investigate the factors that led to the incident.