End of research to find a tourist in the Mingan Islands

The research operations that started on Wednesday noon in the Archipel-de-Mingan National Park on Wednesday noon to find a tourist, ended.

Thursday morning, the coastal guard and parks Canada confirmed that the research operation was finished, and that the person was found alive.

According to the manager of Loiselle tourism companies, which offer excursions in the archipelago, it would be a tourist in the fifties which participated in a boat trip in the National Park. He would have obtained a ticket in the morning, just before departure.

The boat, which can take a dozen people on board, brings visitors to parrot island and then on the naked island to go on autonomous hiking for two hours, explains Suzie Loiselle, which can advise more than 70 tourists per day, to visit the National Park.

This gentleman went to see my captain asking him: “If he happens to me an emergency, what am I doing?” My captain said: “If there is an emergency, there are the Parks of Parks Canada, there is an emergency shelter there, me, in an hour I am here and you are with my group of 10 people, you are not alone”.

The captain, as usual, would have asked passengers to introduce himself for noon on the island’s platform, but the tourist in question was missing. He would not have followed the interpretation visit organized on the island.

The Coast Guard confirms having received a call in the early afternoon to contribute to research. The organization sent a boat, the NGCC Cap Tourmente, to carry out research around the island, In case the person has fallen into the waterbut nothing indicated, at the beginning of the evening, a situation of this kind.

Loiselle tourism companies have also sent a boat to contribute to research, to which Parc Canada agents participate just as much.

Ms. Loiselle confirms that this is the first time that such a situation has occurred since it offers sea trips for tourists. And I hope it’s the lastshe lets fall.

The Sûreté du Québec contributed to research, but did not want to disclose details in this file.

With information from Michèle Bouchard