Coordinated Lake Rescue

A coordinated rescue effort on the weekend helped recover two American men who became stranded on Rainy Lake for nearly two days.

An employee of a Minnesota houseboat company overhead a "May-Day" call Saturday evening about a vessel stranded in Bleak Bay and contacted Canada Border Services which in turn called OPP.

Constable Anne McCoy says officers coordinated the search efforts with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary unit stationed out of Ash River, Minnesota.


McCoy says the men became stranded when their boat suffered engine trouble and strong winds drifted them to a part of the bay that was not visible by other boaters.

Neither man suffered injuries.