UPDATE: 3:45 P.M., OCT 13
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died following a boating incident on Kootenay Lake near Riondel on Oct. 11.
He has been identified as David Larry Dale Jamieson, 30, from Fruitvale, a small community about 16 kilometres east of Trail.
Jamieson was one of four people aboard a seven-metre aluminium power boat on Kootenay Lake.
About 8 p.m. on Oct. 11, the boat ran into rocks at the base of a steep rock face near the Riondel ferry terminal on the east side of the lake.
Jamieson died at the scene as a result of injuries sustained in the collision.
The BC Coroners Service and RCMP continue to investigate this death.
One man is dead and three other people are injured after a boating incident on Kootenay Lake in southeastern B.C.
RCMP from both Creston and Kaslo, B.C., were called to the lake around 9 p.m. Sunday after receiving reports that a boat had struck a rock.
RCMP say in a release that four people were onboard at the time of the crash.
A 30-year-old man died at the scene.
Three other people were transported to hospital.
RCMP are now investigating the cause of the crash.