GGNHL Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 One person is dead and five others missing after they plunged through the ice of Lac-Saint-Jean near Saint-Henri-de-Taillon on Tuesday evening. The death of one of the victims was declared in hospital hours after the incident. Sûreté du Québec officers on snowmobiles, boats deployed by Canadian Armed Forces and the local fire department, and a Canadian Armed Forces helicopter searched the area in an effort to find the missing, who may be trapped under the ice. Provincial police divers were preparing to join the search on Wednesday morning. According to the SQ, a group of foreign tourists and their guide were touring the eastern end of the lake on snowmobiles when the ice gave way. The first victim escaped from the water helped by other members of the tour group who in turn alerted authorities. The SQ were informed of the emergency at about 7:30 p.m. A second victim pulled from the lake later died of their injuries. Three other members of the tour group made it to shore but five others remain missing. Police said the incident occurred in an area outside established trails where snowmobiles are supposed to travel. https://www.google.com/amp/s/montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/one-dead-5-missing-as-snowmobiles-plunge-through-ice-on-lac-saint-jean/amp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin george Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 So, six dead then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 16 minutes ago, smokin george said: Wow. X2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irv Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 X3. Sad news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Fak that's bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted January 22, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 22, 2020 26 minutes ago, irv said: X3. Sad news! sure is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted January 22, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 22, 2020 Shit that sucks. Hope they weren't all from the same family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticCrusher Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Highmark said: Shit that sucks. Hope they weren't all from the same family. French tourists following a tour guide who should have known better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted January 22, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 22, 2020 13 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: French tourists following a tour guide who should have known better. Absolutely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 15 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said: French tourists following a tour guide who should have known better. Thats a big ass lake, and its been cold as hell up there. Must have been near in inlet or some place that the locals would have well know to avoid. Kind of shocking actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted January 22, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted January 22, 2020 Goddamn that is awful...wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford_428cj Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 Damn ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOnManOral Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 1 hour ago, DriftBusta said: Thats a big ass lake, and its been cold as hell up there. Must have been near in inlet or some place that the locals would have well know to avoid. Kind of shocking actually. That lake has a hydro dam on the eastern outlet. The flow may have been altered when this took place. If they were in the bay where the dam is located that could be what caused the ice to fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManOnManOral Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 "They must not have known the area well, because it's an area known for having critically thin ice because of the current," Beaulieu said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mileage Psycho Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 4 hours ago, DriftBusta said: Thats a big ass lake, and its been cold as hell up there. Must have been near in inlet or some place that the locals would have well know to avoid. Kind of shocking actually. There a number of rivers that run in and out of that lake, there's a lot of current on the east side. 2 hours ago, ManOnManOral said: That lake has a hydro dam on the eastern outlet. The flow may have been altered when this took place. If they were in the bay where the dam is located that could be what caused the ice to fail. There are only a couple marked trails on the ice there, and they run perpindicular to the shore line, I've run the marked ice from Chambord to Roberval which is about a 10 mile ice run, and that's like a bay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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