Ontario Provincial Police received a report of a missing 79-year-old man on Lake Nipissing near the French River on Feb.8. The man failed to return home from a day long ice fishing trip.
A search was conducted by snowmobile and helicopter and around noon on Feb. 9 a helmet was located floating in open water by Gibraltar Pass.
The search will resume tomorrow with snowmobiles, an air boat from the West Nipissing Fire Department and officers from the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit out of OPP General Headquarters in Orillia.
The OPP is stressing that this has been a mild winter with above average precipitation, much of it falling as rain. This has resulted in thin or no ice in many areas that are traditionally frozen this time of year.
Extreme caution is warranted on all waterways.
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