Military heading to Nunavut to rescue group of hunters stranded on ice floe
ARCTIC BAY, Nunavut – Two search and rescue aircraft are headed to Nunavut to try to rescue a group of hunters stranded on an ice floe in Lancaster Sound.
An official at the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ont., says the centre was notified this morning that about 12 people were trapped on the floe a few kilometres from shore near the Admiralty Inlet.
They apparently left an unspecified community on snow machines a few days ago to go whale hunting, but the sheet of ice they were on broke loose and drifted.
The rescue centre isn’t sure when exactly that happened.
A C-130 Hercules from CFB Winnipeg and a Cormorant helicopter from CFB Gander, N.L., were expected to arrive at the scene early this afternoon.
(CJOJ)
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