{"id":756941,"date":"2026-06-24T00:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756941\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T00:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T00:16:35","slug":"update-police-clarify-last-nights-gravenhurst-drowning-victim-was-brampton-man-28-who-was-jumping-off-cliffs-at-ungerman-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756941\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: POLICE CLARIFY LAST NIGHT\u2019S GRAVENHURST DROWNING VICTIM WAS BRAMPTON MAN, 28, WHO WAS JUMPING OFF CLIFFS AT UNGERMAN PARK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com<\/a><\/p>\n

GRAVENHURST \u2014 A man who drown last night while jumping off cliffs at Ungerman Park was a 28-year-old from Brampton.<\/p>\n

Earlier witness reports claimed he was in a boat.<\/p>\n

The OPP report this morning said they are investigating the Sunday, June 21, accident, which was reported police at 5:50 p.m.<\/p>\n

Police and Muskoka EMS responded to a possible drowning at the Gravenhurst Wharf on Steamship Bay Road in Gravenhurst.<\/p>\n

They say a group of people were spending time at the nearby Ungerman Park cliffs when one person failed to surface after jumping into the water.<\/p>\n

He was pulled from the water and transported to the Muskoka Wharf by a couple who were boating nearby.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, life-saving efforts were unsuccessful and he did not survive.<\/p>\n

Police are reminding members of the public about the dangers associated with water, always exercise caution and consider wearing a personal flotation device or lifejacket as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Police also clarified, when asked late this morning, by saying the accident was not at the more popular cliffs next to the public swimming beach at the Lorne Street parkette.<\/p>\n

Many people venture along the park path and along town shoreline property to where they can jump or dive into the water, as generations of residents and visitors have safely doneso before.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There are several rock outcroppings along the the town\u2019s Muskoka Bay shoreline where swimmers jump into the water. PHOTO Mark Clairmont MuskokaTODAY.com
\nWitnesses originally said it was boating accident<\/p>\n

An earlier version of this story late Sunday said witnesses claimed the man had jumped overboard on a boat.<\/p>\n

And said efforts by friends and emergency services to save a young man boating on Lake Muskoka were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

The unidentified man died after being rushed to shore at the Muskoka Wharf public boat launch around dinner time on Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n

After the accident witnesses said three or four police vehicles and paramedics rushed to the dockside scene about 5 p.m. where they attempted CPR \u201cin the boat for a long time,\u201d said Elizabeth Tish Graham, who lives in the Greavette condos overlooking the dock near the \u201cTin Boathouses.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said it seemed like \u201ca half hour,\u201d before the man was eventually declared deceased and was covered up on the dock before being removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething must have happened out in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n

A boater loading his watercraft thought the accident happened just beyond the point near the Marriott Hotel.<\/p>\n

Tish Graham added that from what she first saw \u2014 after hearing sirens \u2014\u00a0 it looked like it involved \u201ca great big huge pontoon boat that would carry 10 people or more.\u201d<\/p>\n

First she saw a \u201cboat with a man and woman in it\u201d arrive at the dock before going back out in the water with police, and returning with the pontoon boat.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where emergency efforts took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a number of men, maybe seven, who were with him at the shore,\u201d she said. \u201cThey looked like they were in their early 20s. One of them must have been a relative because they had their arm around another one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI was immersed in the thing. I never left the balcony. It took three hours,\u201d and was the worst thing she has witnessed in 14 years living on the fourth floor of the blue building condos.<\/p>\n

She said \u201cthen the men eventually went to the hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n

One man bleeding, another \u201csobbing\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian Venerayan, the front desk night clerk, said the men came in later and asked to use the washroom.<\/p>\n

He said they were in there mid-20s or early 30s.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them was bleeding and asked for help for cut on his (right) leg. I gave him a bandage from the first aid kit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother man was sobbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

But they were not guests of the hotel and later left by a side door without passing the front desk.<\/p>\n

Venerayan said they had told him \u201ctheir friend had died\u201d after he had \u201cjumped off the boat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI asked him does he know how to swim. And they said \u2018he doesn\u2019t know how to swim.\u201d And then he said as soon as he jumped in the water he got sucked in under the boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venerayan said they told him it was a \u201crental boat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw them get off the boat and they didn\u2019t look to have any life jackets on\u201d that he could see.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s terrible. You have to be careful.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer has just begun and we have a casualty already.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Paramedics and police raced to the public boat launch at the Muskoka Wharf late Sunday afternoon in an attempt to save a man who was rushed to shore by friends. PHOTOS Elizabeth Tish Graham
\n\"\"<\/a>Friends console each other on shore after the tragic accident on the first day of summer.<\/p>\n

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