U.S. police say two bodies found in search for missing B.C. kayakers

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FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. - Police in the United States say two bodies have been found in the search for a pair of British Columbia kayakers who went missing in the waters off Vancouver Island over the weekend.

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FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. – Police in the United States say two bodies have been found in the search for a pair of British Columbia kayakers who went missing in the waters off Vancouver Island over the weekend.

San Juan County Sheriff Eric Peter says his office received a call Monday afternoon about a body floating against a rock on the southwest side of San Juan Island in Washington state.

Peter says that discovery was followed by a report today of another body floating at the southernmost point on San Juan Island.

A Washington state ferry passes through a channel in the San Juan Islands and in view of Mount Baker Thursday, March 26, 2015, near Friday Harbor, Washington state. Police in British Columbia say U.S. authorities searching for a pair of missing kayakers have found a body in the San Juan Islands. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Elaine Thompson
A Washington state ferry passes through a channel in the San Juan Islands and in view of Mount Baker Thursday, March 26, 2015, near Friday Harbor, Washington state. Police in British Columbia say U.S. authorities searching for a pair of missing kayakers have found a body in the San Juan Islands. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Elaine Thompson

He says both bodies have been recovered and turned over to the coroner’s office.

Police have yet to determine the identities of the bodies, and Peter says the sheriff’s office will not speculate on whether they are the missing kayakers “out of respect for the family.”

Sidney/North Saanich RCMP has said two men went missing Saturday while kayaking between D’Arcy Island and Island View Beach, just north of Victoria.

They said 36-year-old Daniel MacAlpine and twenty-six-year-old Nicholas West were in a teal blue fibreglass, two-person, kayak.

The search for the pair had expanded south into U.S. waters on Monday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 23, 2024.

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