Category: Great Lakes
Expert to summertime swimmers: Beware Great Lakes’ deadly rip currents
Summer has barely begun and the Great Lakes have already claimed 47 lives through drownings this year, according to the Great Lakes Surf Rescue Project, which also pegs the number of rescues of people plucked from the water at 12 so far in 2022.
Government urged to do more to protect water from plastics
A Canadian advocacy group is calling on the federal government to protect Great Lakes water from plastic pollution.
What experts think bacteria, that summertime scourge, will do to Lake Erie this season
Beachgoers, boaters and commercial fishers can expect mostly smooth sailing on Southwestern Ontario’s algae-prone Great Lake this summer.
Burlington man pronounced dead after being recovered from Lake Huron
A 50-year-old man from Burlington was pronounced dead after being pulled from Lake Huron near Sauble Beach Wednesday. According to a Grey-Bruce OPP media release, just after 8:16 a.m. on Wednesday emergency services responded to a report of an individual who entered the water in Lake Huron at the Saugeen First Nation. The man was […]
OPP identify drowning victim
A man from Burlington has been identified as the individual who drowned in Lake Huron this week.