Category: Great Lakes
Letters to the Editor: July 27, 2022
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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.
Spots open for Lake Huron Coastal Centre youth conservation corps program
The Lake Huron Coastal Centre (LHCC) is encouraging youth ages 14 to 18 to join their Coastal Conservation Youth Corps program (CCYC) in Goderich and Port Elgin this July, August, and September. The free outdoor education program uses Lake Huron as a classroom to teach youth about coastal ecology, helping them learn new skills in […]
Transmitters in Lake Huron whitefish to reveal movements
Lake Huron whitefish are being tagged with transmitters to track their movements, the first time an acoustic telemetry project of this scale has been done in Lake Huron. The “pings” from transmitters surgically implanted in the fish are detected by receivers placed on the bottom of the lake at various locations. Information recorded at these […]
Elgin County hosting search and rescue training exercises this week
Elgin County is set to play host to a large-scale multi-agency search and rescue training exercise this week.
Hopes dashed, mystery deepens in 1970 Lake Erie plane crash vanishing
“I was pretty confident we had the right guy,” a Norfolk OPP detective said.