Search underway for Jet Ski rider in Alta. lake
Updated: Sun Sep. 11 2011 18:31:02
ctvedmonton.ca
Emergency personnel are combing through a lake southwest of Edmonton, after a Jet Ski was found without a rider Saturday afternoon.
Wetaskiwin RCMP said they received a call reporting a possible missing boater just before 3 Saturday afternoon.
The caller said they had seen the man riding a personal watercraft without a life jacket, and then about 45 minutes later saw the same watercraft with no rider, going around in circles.
A massive search operation has launched to find the man, STARS Air Ambulance, Edmonton Police Service's Air Two, Pigeon Lake protective services, and firefighters and RCMP officers from Wetaskiwin, Leduc and Thorsby are involved in the search.
The man has been identified as 62-year-old Leduc resident Larry Majeski.
Crews were forced to stop for the night at about 9 Saturday, and planned to resume the search Sunday morning – by that time the effort turned from rescue to recovery, and strong winds left search crews on the shore to wait out the weather.
"[The weather] can make the recovery effort a lot more difficult because the victim does move in the water," Corporal Kevin Krebs of the Wetaskiwin RCMP said Sunday.
At least a dozen emergency workers were back in the area Sunday morning to continue the search.
Majeski had taken his personal watercraft out on the lake one last time before putting it away for the season when he disappeared.
"He is an experienced rider, at this point we're not sure what happened to him, why he fell off the Sea-Doo or [if] there was a medical issue," Krebs said. "At this point we can't determine what happened."
The community of the city Majeski and his family called home for more than 30 years is reeling from the disappearance.
The city's mayor spoke to CTV News Sunday over the phone, and is having a hard time with the news.
"It's a tremendous loss for our community," Mayor Greg Krischke. "I don't know what else to say, I'm speechless.
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