1 boater dead, another missing after malfunction stranded them on Lake Manitoba

CBC News

· Posted: May 09, 2025 2:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

A Sandy Bay First Nation antheral is dormant and different antheral is missing aft their vessel suffered a malfunction and got stranded connected Lake Manitoba Thursday.

The 2 men, ages 41 and 22, had launched a boat earlier that time from down the h2o works successful the First Nation, which is astir 130 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

Their vessel suffered a malfunction but due to the fact that of the precocious winds, the section occurrence section could not motorboat its own vessel to assist, RCMP said connected a quality merchandise Friday.

The Sandy Bay Fire Department contacted RCMP for help around 8 p.m. Thursday.

RCMP said the boaters were past seen astir 200 metres from the enactment southeast of Halls Beach, astir 10 kilometres distant from the h2o plant. Neither was wearing a life-jacket. 

At astir 9 a.m. Friday, the assemblage of the 22-year-old antheral was recovered connected the shoreline, constabulary said. 

Underwater betterment teams from Manitoba and Saskatchewan RCMP proceed searching Lake Manitoba for the 41-year-old, with assistance from the Manitoba First Nation Police Service and the Sandy Bay Fire Department.