UPDATED: OPP Searching Lake Erie For Missing Boater
Last updated: Friday August 2nd, 1:38pm
The boater previously reported missing has been located safe.
On August 1st, 2024, at approximately 2:50pm Elgin Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Chatham Detachment, received a report of a missing boater, last seen entering Lake Erie from the Rondeau Bay channel.
Members of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC), Canadian Coast Guard, American Coast Guard, Chatham-Kent Fire and Rescue, Elgin OPP, Rondeau Provincial Park and Chatham-Kent Police Service assisted with search.
In the morning of August 2nd, 2024, the missing boater was located near the shores of Lake Erie east of Port Glasgow.