Police searching for man thrown from Sea-Doo on Northern Peninsula
An underwater recovery team is searching for a man who fell off a Sea-Doo on the Northern Peninsula Sunday night.
In a news release sent Monday, the RCMP said officers in St. Anthony received a call for help around 9:30 p.m. NT after a man and a woman fell off the watercraft while on Gull Pond, near St. Lunaire-Griquet.
The release said neither one of them was wearing a life-jacket.
The woman was able to swim to shore, but the RCMP said the man did not resurface.
Crews searched for the man into Sunday evening, and the RCMP's underwater dive team was called in to continue the search on Monday.
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