One dead, one missing in Sandy Bay boating incident
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One man is dead and RCMP are searching for another after they were stranded on a boat on Lake Manitoba and tried to swim to shore.
Sandy Bay Ojibway First Nation’s fire department contacted Treherne RCMP for help at about 8 p.m. Thursday.
Officers were told two Sandy Bay men, ages 41 and 22, had launched a boat from behind the community’s water-treatment plant earlier that day and that the vessel had malfunctioned.
The fire department couldn’t launch a boat to get to the vessel because of high winds.
A bystander on the beach later saw both men in the water southeast of Halls Beach, about 200 metres from shore. Neither man was wearing a life jacket.
RCMP underwater recovery teams from Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been sent to the area.
The body of the younger man was found on shore at about 9 a.m. Friday.
The search for the older man continues.