(Quinte News File Photo: Nicole Kleinsteuber)
A Napanee man has died after an incident involving a Sea Doo Saturday morning.
At 11:41 a.m. OPP were called to a public boat launch on Bayview Drive in Greater Napanee where there was a report of a possible impaired man attempting to unload a Sea Doo.
While enroute officers were notified that the man was on the Sea Doo with a woman passenger and that both were wearing life jackets.
At 12:05 p.m. police were updated that a man was conducting CPR on another male at a nearby residence on County Road 9.
Police attended the scene and learned that the man was found face down in the water after another boater noticed the Sea Doo going in circles with no one on it. The man was taken to shore and CPR was commenced. Police arrived and continued CPR until EMS attended.
The man was transported to hospital where he was pronounced deceased.
The female passenger had been dropped off on shore prior to the crash occurring and was uninjured.
Deceased is 33 year-old Ossario “Sam” Hoyte.
A post mortem examination will be conducted today to determine the cause of death.
