Search for missing Lake Scugog boater continues

Durham regional police are still searching for a man after a Friday boating accident in Ontario’s cottage country.

The 49-year-old man from Thurstonia, whose name hasn’t been released, was with another man when their boat collided Friday night with another boat on Lake Scucog.

The body of a 38-year-old man from nearby Washburn Island was retrieved from the lake at about 9 p.m. Sunday. His name won’t be disclosed until family members have been notified.

The occupants of the other boat made it to shore where they were assessed by paramedics and released.

Early Monday, a military helicopter found a boat carrying five children and three adults, hours after it went missing on Lake Simcoe.

The boat was found around 4 a.m. near Thorah Island, near Beaverton. The people on board spent the night on the water after the craft experienced some mechanical trouble. They’d left the marina in Orillia around 7 p.m. Sunday.

All of the boaters are said to be OK.

The long weekend was marked by other tragedies.

Rich Trespeces, a 21-year-old Seneca College student from Maple, drowned in the Muskoka River in Bracebridge on Saturday.

A Gravenhurst, Ont., man was killed in a diving accident in Lake Muskoka Sunday. The 49-year-old dove off a cliff and hit a rock before entering the water.

And a seven-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was pulled out of Lake Muskoka on Sunday. He and three other kids were playing at Muskoka Beach in Gravenhurst when he started having trouble in deep water.

The boy was rushed to a local hospital.

With files from The Canadian Press

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