June 10, 2019 12:33 pm

Police say a man has been charged after a fatal boating incident on Colpoy’s Bay

Police say a 39-year-old man is charged with impaired operation of a vessel causing death.

Megan Turcato / Global News
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COLPOYS BAY, Ont. – Provincial police have charged a 39-year-old man after another man died in a boating incident over the weekend.

They say people reported hearing calls for help coming from the water on Colpoy’s Bay, in Georgian Bay, around 10:30 p.m. on Friday night.

Police say two civilian boats found three men in the water, two of whom were taken to hospital.

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Investigators then learned that a boat had sunk and there was a fourth person unaccounted for.

Police say the body of the missing man was found around 2:15 a.m. the following day.

A 39-year-old man is charged with impaired operation of a vessel causing death and his case is next up in court on June 19.

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