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MIDDLESEX CENTRE, ONT. Provincial police have carried out additional training and implemented new communication tools following the death of a man on Lake Erie. Reginald Fisher, 77, set off alone in his sailboat from Port Glasgow on Sept. 17, 2020. Searchers located his boat, overturned, the next evening and his body was found along the shoreline weeks later, on Oct. 2, 2020. According to an OPP statement there was a lot of activity on Lake Erie on Sept. 17 as another vessel was also in distress. OPP, the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) and other emergency groups were responding to that distress call. With marine rescue units and two search and rescue crews in the air, flares were dropped by a rescue aircraft.
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Following an internal review of the death of a Dutton man sailing on Lake Erie, the OPP is changing how it assesses reports of marine incidents and training emergency call-takers on the different types of flares.
Reginald Fisher, 77, left Port Glasgow harbour, south of Rodney, in his 4.3-metre sailboat on Sept. 17 in rough water. He was reported missing the next day, prompting an extensive search by the Canadian Coast Guard, OPP and Royal Canadian Air Force.
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