People parasail on Okanagan Lake as motorists travel over the William R. Bennett Bridge, in Kelowna, B.C., on Saturday, May 30, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Two men presumed to have drowned in B.C. Interior lakes
Jul 13, 2026 | 11:38 AM
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WEST KELOWNA — Two men are missing and presumed drowned in British Columbia’s Okanagan and Shuswap regions in separate cases.
In West Kelowna, police say a 45-year-old man was in an inflatable tube while being towed behind a boat in Okanagan Lake on Saturday when he fell off and was seen struggling in the water.
Police say the man was not wearing a life-jacket, and the boat operator who jumped in to try to save him had to be rescued himself by another nearby boat.
It follows a case on Mara Lake near Sicamous in the Shuswap region on Friday, when a group of friends on a boat filed a missing person’s report after noticing one man from the party was missing.
