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FILE PHOTO - An RCMP diver changes air tanks in this file photo during a search around the CNR wharf in Gellatly Bay in West Kelowna. Photographer: John McDonald

RCMP divers search waters around CNR wharf in Gellatly Bay

Jul 14, 2015 04:07:36

WEST KELOWNA – RCMP divers are searching the waters around the CNR wharf in Gellatly Bay but the won’t say what they are looking for or what investigation the search is tied to.

“All I can say is that it is related to an investigation,” Const. Steve McBride, the senior officer on the scene, says.

McBride referered enquiries to the RCMP’s media spokesman, Const. Steve Holmes, who was unable to provide any further details.

“If there was any information they wanted released to the public they would have told me,” Holmes says.

Meanwhile, the CNR wharf remains off limits to the public as the two-person dive team scours the area immediately around the popular dock.

More to come.

To contact the reporter for this story, email John McDonald at jmcdonald@infonews.ca or call 250-808-0143. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

John McDonald

John began life as a journalist through the Other Press, the independent student newspaper for Douglas College in New Westminster. The fluid nature of student journalism meant he was soon running the place, learning on the fly how to publish a newspaper.

It wasn’t until he moved to Kelowna he broke into the mainstream media, working for Okanagan Sunday, then the Kelowna Daily Courier and Okanagan Saturday doing news graphics and page layout. He carried on with the Kelowna Capital News, covering health and education while also working on special projects, including the design and launch of a mass market daily newspaper. After 12 years there, John rejoined the Kelowna Daily Courier as editor of the Westside Weekly, directing news coverage as the Westside became West Kelowna.

But digital media beckoned and John joined Kelowna.com as assistant editor and reporter, riding the start-up as it at first soared then went down in flames. Now John is turning dirt as city hall reporter for iNFOnews.ca where he brings his long experience to bear on the civic issues of the day.

If you have a story you think people should know about, email John at jmcdonald@infonews.ca