NEWS RELEASE
OPP
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On September 12, 2020, shortly after 2:30 p.m., members of the Haliburton Highlands Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), and emergency crews were called to assist with a capsized canoe on Moore Lake.
A family of four - a man, a woman, and two young children - were paddling on Moore Lake when their canoe capsized. Boaters in the area arrived on the scene to support the family in distress.
The woman and the two children were pulled safely from the water. The man involved in the boating incident passed one of the young children to an individual on one of the rescue boats before slipping under the water.
The OPP helicopter and Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) were dispatched to Moore Lake to support recovery efforts of the man involved in the incident. USRU worked together with the Minden Hills Fire Department to locate and recover the body of the missing boater. The body of a 39-year-old North York man was recovered from Moore Lake shortly after 6:00 pm.
Investigators are citing absence of safety equipment as a significant contributing factor in this tragedy.
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