{"id":685019,"date":"2026-05-21T22:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T22:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:07:17","slug":"two-drown-in-separate-incidents-at-nanaimos-departure-bay-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685019\/","title":{"rendered":"Two drown in separate incidents at Nanaimo\u2019s Departure Bay | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0390a304-1103-438a-8acd-50ddad427b1b-2.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Two people have drowned in separate incidents in Nanaimo on Wednesday, May 20, with one incident sparking a large search effort. (Image Credit: Ian Holmes\/NanaimoNewsNOW)<\/p>\n<p>By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff<\/p>\n<p>large emergency response<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 21, 2026 | 10:37 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>NANAIMO \u2014 Two people have drowned in what RCMP are saying were separate incidents on Wednesday night, prompting major search efforts<\/p>\n<p>Mounties received a check-well-being call at around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, for a woman who was seen on the water in Departure Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Reserve Cst. Gary O\u2019Brien said this sparked a large search effort, which included Nanaimo Search and Rescue crews, the Nanaimo Port Authority, and two aircraft from 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron from CFB Comox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 9 p.m., the woman was found deceased near Departure Bay beach. Life-saving measures were applied, but she was pronounced deceased. Foul play is not suspected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have drowned in separate incidents in Nanaimo on Wednesday, May 20, with one incident sparking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[879,2467,43,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-685019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-headlines","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}