Daftar Hotel - The family of a 23-year-old Burnaby man is “devastated and traumatized” after they found the drowned man’s body following an eight-day search. Police divers and search and rescue teams had been unsuccessful in finding Chad Thornhill’s body after he disappeared following an April 3 canoeing accident on the swollen Nanaimo River.
Hotel di Cirebon But RCMP Const. Sue Phillips said relatives spent eight days going up and down the river in a Zodiak searching for his body.
“The body was found in a very calm section of the river,” she added. “They had an underwater camera and he was down about 12 feet.”
The RCMP dive team helped recover the body.
She said the tragedy occurred when four people went out in a pair of canoes near Nanaimo’s Bungy Zone and one canoe capsized. “Two guys went into the water and one feller was floating down the middle of the river and the deceased man swam towards the shore,” she said.
The other canoe went to rescue the man in the river, thinking the dead man was going to be OK, as he was hanging onto a tree.
“They plucked the one guy out of the middle of the river and looked back and went, ‘Where did he go?’” she said. “He had disappeared. It’s icy cold water and he’d slipped under the surface.” She said the boaters weren’t wearing life-jackets.
Phillips said the dead man’s family is feeling a “great sense of relief” that their ordeal is nearing an end. She said one of the relatives, who wasn’t ready to talk to the media, plans to ask for warning signs to be placed on the Nanaimo River that tell boaters not to enter when the water reaches a certain level.
Hotel di Cirebon But RCMP Const. Sue Phillips said relatives spent eight days going up and down the river in a Zodiak searching for his body.
“The body was found in a very calm section of the river,” she added. “They had an underwater camera and he was down about 12 feet.”
The RCMP dive team helped recover the body.
She said the tragedy occurred when four people went out in a pair of canoes near Nanaimo’s Bungy Zone and one canoe capsized. “Two guys went into the water and one feller was floating down the middle of the river and the deceased man swam towards the shore,” she said.
The other canoe went to rescue the man in the river, thinking the dead man was going to be OK, as he was hanging onto a tree.
“They plucked the one guy out of the middle of the river and looked back and went, ‘Where did he go?’” she said. “He had disappeared. It’s icy cold water and he’d slipped under the surface.” She said the boaters weren’t wearing life-jackets.
Phillips said the dead man’s family is feeling a “great sense of relief” that their ordeal is nearing an end. She said one of the relatives, who wasn’t ready to talk to the media, plans to ask for warning signs to be placed on the Nanaimo River that tell boaters not to enter when the water reaches a certain level.
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