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Two hikers were plucked by helicopter from a large piece of ice that broke away from shore at Bruce Peninsula National Park near Tobermory on Sunday.
The ice the two people were on drifted almost three kilometres from shore when an OPP helicopter was able to hover above them and make the rescue, Grey Bruce OPP said in a news release on Monday.
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Both people were returned safely to shore and were uninjured.
“This was amazing team work by all of the involved services,” Grey Bruce OPP Acting Insp. Debra Anderson said in the release. “Everyone worked together to safely rescue these hikers. This situation could have ended in tragedy.”
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Emergency crews were called to Cyprus Lake Road at Bruce Peninsula National Park near Tobermory, Ont., at around 2:30 p.m. after hearing from a pair of hikers who got lost, walked off the trail and ended up on a piece of ice that broke off from the shore.(@OPP WR/Twitter)
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It was no walk in the park for two hikers near Tobermory.
Grey Bruce OPP say the pair were walking on some ice along the shores of Bruce Peninsula National Park Sunday afternoon when a large chunk broke off sending the two hikers floating out towards Georgian Bay.
Officers along with Bruce County Paramedics, Northern Bruce Peninsula Fire, and Parks Canada arrived at the scene near Cypress Lake Road around 2:30.
A Hercules aircraft from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton was brought in as well as an OPP Aviation Services Helicopter from Orillia.
The aircraft located the hikers who were three kilometres from shore while the helicopter rescued the hikers and brought them to shore safely.