{"id":724714,"date":"2026-06-09T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:38:12","slug":"saskatoon-man-30-drowned-at-lake-diefenbaker-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/724714\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatoon man, 30, drowned at Lake Diefenbaker on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RCMP say a 30-year-old man from Saskatoon drowned at Lake Diefenbaker over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Police responded to Danielson Provincial Park, located 109 kilometres south of Saskatoon, after reports of a drowning.<\/p>\n

Sgt. Mark Langager, with the Outlook RCMP detachment, said officers received a 911 call at approximately 4:45 p.m. CST on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Two men were on a paddleboard when they fell off. One was able to make it to shore while the other drowned. Neither were wearing life-jackets,” Langager said.<\/p>\n

The man who made it to shore was taken to hospital.<\/p>\n

Investigators and a dive team found the 30-year-old’s body on Sunday. His identity has not been released, but his family has been notified.<\/p>\n

RCMP say there is no criminal element to the case and it is considered a sudden death investigation. The Saskatchewan Coroners Service has taken charge of the investigation.<\/p>\n

“What’s concerning to us is the amount of people taking part in water sports and recreation on the water that aren’t wearing life-jackets,” Langager said.<\/p>\n

RCMP encourage anyone taking part in recreational activities on the water to wear a life-jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-724714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724714","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=724714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}