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.
