Missing boater’s body recovered: Mission RCMP [Video]

Search and rescue crews recovered the body of a boater who was missing and presumed dead Saturday in Mission, B.C.

Local Mounties said the man was found in Nicomen Slough in the late afternoon.

“Mission Search and Rescue and Mission RCMP would like to thank the public for their concern, especially those who offered to assist in the search efforts, and we send our deepest condolences to the man’s family and friends,” a news release from the detachment reads.

Search and rescue teams had been looking for the boater since Friday evening after receiving reports of a boating accident at the Dewdney Bridge.

In an update Saturday morning, police described the missing boater as a 37-year-old man from Dewdney and provided additional information about what happened.

“Two men had been out in a small flat-bottom aluminum boat, and were reportedly doing donuts in the water when they hit their own …