A man is now in hospital after he nearly drowned while swimming in Lake Chaparral on Monday night.
At just before 7 p.m. on Monday, the Calgary Fire Aquatics Rescue Team pulled a man in his 30s out of the southeast lake.
They say he’d been swimming in the water, but then began to struggle and sink under the surface.
The team just happened to be in the area conducting a training exercise, and spotted him in distress.
As a result, they were able to get him out of the water within minutes of him going under.
They conducted CPR until EMS arrived at the scene to take him to hospital.
The man is now at the South Health Campus in life-threatening condition.
This incident comes about a day after two people, a man and a woman, tipped their boat on Lake McGregor near Vulcan, about 100 km southeast of Calgary.
Authorities located the body of the woman near the shore, but subsequent searches of the lake turned up no trace of the 37-year-old man.
They say they are withholding the identities of the dead woman and the missing man as they are still trying to locate next of kin.
RCMP is asking anyone who may have seen the two boaters at Lake McGregor to contact the Vulcan RCMP Detachment at 403-485-2267.
