{"id":752118,"date":"2026-06-21T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752118\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T19:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:15:12","slug":"crews-search-for-missing-jet-ski-rider-who-went-over-saskatoon-weir-saskatoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752118\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews search for missing jet ski rider who went over Saskatoon weir &#8211; Saskatoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saskatoon emergency officials have switched to a recovery mission after a jet ski rider reportedly did not resurface after going under the water on the South Saskatchewan River.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The police and fire department responded to multiple reports late Saturday afternoon that the rider was in distress after going over the weir in the river adjacent to the train bridge and 33rd St. E.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>Crews used a specialized vessel designed for weir rescue operations upon arrival, but transitioned to a recovery mission to find the jet ski operator.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Residents were asked to avoid the area as police investigated.<\/p>\n<p>No roadway restrictions were put in place, but pedestrian walkways were closed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saskatoon emergency officials have switched to a recovery mission after a jet ski rider reportedly did not resurface&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,43,51537,44,268851,41,39,42,40,268850,130411],"class_list":["post-752118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-headlines","tag-jet-ski","tag-news","tag-south-saskatchewan-river","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-water-recovery","tag-water-rescue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752118","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=752118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}