B.C. RCMP team helps rescue 12 stranded kayakers near U.S. border

12 kayakers — including 6 children — rescued off the coast of PNW islands

Officials didn’t say why the kayakers needed to be rescued.

Joint U.S.-Canadian effort rescues 12 kayakers from San Juan Islands

A big rescue operation assisted 12 kayakers, including six children, who ran into trouble in the San Juan Islands Thursday. The U.S. Coast Guard says a radio call came in on VHF radio, just before 2:00 p.m., from a group of kayakers in distress between Patos and Sucia Islands, just north of Orcas Island. A 29-foot Coast Guard rescue boat out of Bellingham immediately launched. That crew was joined by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Federal Polic…

Kayak capsizes and leaves kids facing dangerous currents

The kayakers had done everything right but still ended up in trouble

RCMP Help Rescue 12 Kayakers, Including 6 Children, Off Coast of Washington State

A B.C. RCMP team helped the U.S. Coast Guard rescue a group of kayakers, including six children, off the coast of Washington state. RCMP say they received a call from the Coast Guard around 1:50 p.m. on Aug. 15, asking for assistance answering a distress call from a group of kayakers. The group of 12 people from two families were on six kayaks and needed rescuing near Patos Island and Sucia Island, according to RCMP. “The RCMP Federal Policing –…

RCMP help rescue distressed kayakers, including 6 children off Washington coast

Members of the RCMP Shiprider program helped rescued a dozen distressed kayakers – half of them children – off the coast of Washington state on Thursday.

RCMP help rescue 12 kayakers in distress near Canada-U.S. border

2 families had gone off on an overnight kayak trip in the San Juan Islands