A 69-year-old boater drowned on Pigeon Lake in Kawartha Lakes sometime between late Sunday night (August 27) and early Monday morning, apparently after falling overboard.
At around 12:40 a.m. on Monday morning, officers with Kawartha Lakes Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), members of the marine unit and fire and rescue, along with a helicopter from Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at 8 Wing Trenton, began a search after responding to a call about a missing boater.
Shortly before 6 a.m., searchers located the lifeless body of the missing boater submerged in the water.
Police have identified the victim, who was the lone occupant of his boat, as a 69-year-old Kawartha Lakes man.
While police are continuing their investigation, they say he was was found not wearing a life jacket.
The OPP are reminding boaters, personal watercraft users, and paddlers to wear a life jacket or personal flotation device (PFD) while on the water. Capsized vessels and falling overboard are the top contributing factors in boating deaths every year.
