OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit vehicle. Photo courtesy of the OPPOPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit vehicle. Photo courtesy of the OPP
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OPP identify deceased boater found near Rondeau Park, search continues for second

The identities of two boaters who went missing from a capsized vessel found on Lake Erie near Rondeau Park last Friday have been released.

Sometime after 9 a.m. on August 6, Chatham-Kent Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Chatham-Kent Fire Department responded to a call of an overturned boat found on Lake Erie about 100 yards out from the shoreline of Rondeau Provincial Park.

A of couple hours into the investigation, firefighters located a person without vital signs on the shoreline of Rondeau Park who was later pronounced deceased. Investigators later learned a second person was on the boat before it flipped. The other boater is still missing.

OPP have since identified the deceased as 75-year-old Robert Thibert of Windsor.

The OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit along with Aviation Services continue to search for the second man, 57-year-old Kenneth Blythe, also from Windsor.

No other details are available.

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