Submerged truck found decades later
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A truck recently found submerged in a Manitoba lake has been there since 1990, police say.
Russell RCMP were told about the vehicle in Lake of the Prairies, located in the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West, on Aug. 20. A person gave officers images of the vehicle’s outline from a fish finder and its GPS location.
Officers were unable to determine how or when the vehicle became submerged and contacted the underwater recovery team. The team found the vehicle using sonar and a remote-operated vehicle on Aug. 27.
The team deployed the remote-controlled vehicle to a depth of six metres and was able to see a licence plate number and determine the vehicle it was affixed to appeared to be a 1970s model pickup truck. Manitoba Public Insurance was able to trace insurance records back to 1990.
The truck’s owner, an RM of Taché resident, told police he was returning home in the winter of 1990 and taking a shortcut across the lake when the truck started going through the ice. Everyone inside was able to get out of the truck.
The man told police he had returned to the lake multiple times over the years trying to locate the vehicle.
The truck remains in the lake, an RCMP spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.
» Winnipeg Free Press