RCMP Dive Team Searches For Missing Man After Vancouver Island Boating Incident On Sproat Lake

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Jul, 2015 02:00 PM

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — One man is missing and another is in hospital following a boating accident on Vancouver Island.

Port Alberni RCMP say they launched their police craft around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday in response to reports of an on-the-water incident on Sproat Lake (in the Alberni Valley).

Quick-acting bystanders were able to rescue one man from the lake.

He was later airlifted to hospital in Victoria.

A police dive team is searching for a second, 41-year-old man who was onboard the boat at the time of the accident.

Police say they don't yet know how or why the boat sank but that an investigation is underway.

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