Search teams are still trying to find a man who overturned his kayak in Lake Huron near Southampton Monday afternoon.
The Saugeen Shores Fire Department was called to the shore near Chantry View Drive around 2:15, just south of the mouth of the Saugeen River, after witnesses reported finding a kayak overturned in the lake, about 400-metres from shore.
Firefighters searched the water using boats and a drone, and were later joined by a coast guard helicopter, as well as a boat and a helicopter from the OPP.
Saugeen Shores Police Chief Dan Rivett says a witness saw the man paddling without a lifejacket in an area northeast of Chantry Island and later found the kayak overturned in the water.
"It was a local resident who went out to get the kayak and pull it in, so we have a pretty good idea of where he went in," says Rivett. "The eyewitness, she saw him one moment, and then he was upside down the next."
The missing man has been identified as 60-year-old David Counsell of Saugeen Shores.
