Body Recovered After Weekend Fishing Accident
Fort St. James, BC – North District RCMP say searchers have recovered the body of an Aldergrove man who disappeared while fishing on a remote lake, north of Fort St. James over the weekend.
Media Relations Officer, Constable Lesley Smith, says police in Fort St. James were called to Elliott Lake, approximately 150-kilometres north of the community, late Sunday afternoon.
Smith says a family member advised attending officers that the 67-year-old was last seen fishing from his boat in the small lake, but the boat had been found adrift with no sign of the man or his fishing gear.
FSJ Search & Rescue arrived to scour the lake and shoreline. Constable Smith says the victim’s body was recovered from the water early Monday evening. Foul play is not suspected and the BC Coroners Service has assumed jurisdiction of the investigation.
The victim’s identity has not been released.
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Most people have life jackets in their boats but rarely wear them I grew up on a lake the rule always was no matter where we were on water moving or stationary the life jacket stayed on till we touched shore a mantra that I still live by. People do not understand the true dangers of water and I have had to pull my share of people thrown overboard out of the water most were not wearing their life jackets.
Don,t understand why my last comment was deleted. Was a factual one. Condolences to the family.
Condolences to the family. in all honesty, at this time of the year, a Life Jacket is not going to save you from the water. Hypothermia will get you.
Sounds like the man, died doing what he loves to do. Once again condolences to the family
Condolences to the family and friends of this man.
A big thank you to the RCMP and Ft. St. James Search & Rescue, with NO thanks to our “tight-wad” provincial government!
There is no law to wear the life jacket, you only have to have one in the boat for each person.
Condolences to his family.
People#1 Why do you feel the Provincial Government somehow is responsible?
BYOB, the numerous search and rescue organizations in this province are volunteers. They provide their time and services free of charge.
It is dangerous and exhausting work looking for drowning victims in our lakes and rivers. The use of side scan sonar to find those victims and Remote Operating Vehicles (ROVs) to recover their bodies are a safer more effective way than manually diving or dragging lakes and rivers.
The cost of side scan sonar and ROV technology only costs thousands of dollars, but has been proven to increase drowning victim body recovery rates substantially, this bringing closure to the victims grieving family members.
Yet this provincial government is too cheap to purchase this technology, used to great effect in the USA. How effective is this new sonar technology? Read this news article, they were only testing the sonar, not looking for any bodies and found six of them!!!
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sixth-body-found-cars-recovered-oklahoma-lake-article-1.1459571
Sincere condolences to friends and family
People#1, thanks for your input but it appears they recovered the body of this unfortunate drowning victim
@ slinky; I know they recovered the victim’s body which is why I previously stated;
“A big thank you to the RCMP and Ft. St. James Search & Rescue, with NO thanks to our “tight-wad” provincial government!”
You don’t read too well do you?
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