Release:

Kings County District RCMP is investigating a fatal boating incident that occurred on Aylesford Lake, Kings County.

On July 1 at approximately 4:45 p.m., RCMP, EHS, fire services, and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) responded to a report that people had been ejected from a boat on Aylesford Lake. Officers learned five men from Kings County were in a boat when two passengers were thrown from the vessel as the surface conditions of the water changed.

Map location is approximate and may not reflect the exact location.

One man, a 70-year-old from Aylesford, was located in the water by an uninvolved boater nearby and later pronounced deceased at the scene.

Search efforts are ongoing to locate the other person, a 58-year-old man from Aylesford. JRCC, Valley Ground Search and Rescue, and Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA) are engaged in addition to the Nova Scotia RCMP Underwater Recovery Team. There will be a significant presence of police and first-responders in the area around Aylesford Lake as this investigation continues.

The three men remaining in the boat had no reported injuries.

The investigation is ongoing.

Our thoughts are with the deceased man’s loved ones at this difficult time.