ELY, Minn. (Northern Information Now) – After a solo tenting journey within the Boundary Waters Canoe Space a canoeist has been discovered useless.
Based on the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Workplace, on Friday at round 5 p.m. different outdoorsmen within the BWCA known as 911 to report a capsized and partly submerged canoe with a useless physique close to Lake Agnes.
Members of the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Workplace, Sheriff’s Workplace Rescue Squad, and U.S. Forest Service responded and upon their arrival on the scene recovered the physique of 62-year-old, Duluth resident, Mark Ham.
Based on Ham’s household, he was on a solo tenting journey within the BWCA.
A life jacket was situated on the scene however was not being worn by the sufferer.
With the opening of the Minnesota fishing season this weekend, the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Workplace and Rescue Squad want to remind everybody to please put on their lifejackets whereas out on the water having fun with their favourite water recreations this summer season.
This incident stays underneath investigation by the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Workplace and Midwest Medical Examiner Workplace.
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