Overview

• At Westboro Beach, an Ottawa father drowned on Wednesday after he and his child went underwater; bystander intervention saved the child, who was taken to CHEO Hospital as a precaution, and Ottawa Police Marine and Fire Services later recovered the father’s body.
• Provincial police and the Canadian Coast Guard have deployed marine units, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and OPP dive teams in a continued search for a boater who fell from his vessel near Milton Island on the St. Lawrence River.
• Investigations at Ipperwash Beach on Lake Huron focus on two drownings—a 44-year-old Lambton Shores man who dove into shallow water from a boat and an 18-year-old London swimmer—after beachgoers rescued a 12-year-old from London.
• The OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit located the body of a 34-year-old fisherman who went missing Saturday while fishing near the Appleton dam on the Mississippi River.
• These events form part of a seasonal pattern in Ontario drownings, with about 160 fatalities annually and water incidents ranking as a leading cause of death for children under 14 in unguarded areas.