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Search fails to find missing kayaker near Sooke

CBC News20 June 2018JDF SAR era

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Summary

There was still no sign of a 57-year-old kayaker who set out Monday morning for a paddle in Beecher Bay, near Sooke, B.C. The man's vehicle was found at Beecher Bay in East Sooke on the Tuesday, after he had been reported overdue. A full-scale search was launched covering a 1,000-square-kilometre area of the Juan de Fuca Strait, from Sooke to Victoria. A red kayak, similar to the one the man was paddling, was found but no other clues had been located. Several coast guard vessels, as well as a military helicopter and search plane, scoured the area until darkness. An update on the search was expected later Wednesday.

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Headline“Search fails to find missing kayaker near Sooke”
PublicationCBC News
Date20 June 2018
PageNot applicable — web edition, no print page number
EraJDF SAR era
Document typenews report
Original articleCBC News — Search fails to find missing kayaker near Sooke ↗
Sourcecbc.ca
Accessed2026-08-06
Licensingref-only
Record confidenceconfirmed

Archivist's note

Captured 2026-08-06, closing the phase-9 '2 CBC articles' browser-fetch flag (first of two). The article does not name the kayaker and does not mention Juan de Fuca Search and Rescue or any ground SAR team — the search described is marine, run by coast guard and military assets. It is held as context for the marine side of the team's operating area: a Beecher Bay/East Sooke incident outside the ground-SAR record. A follow-up CBC story (July 2018, not captured) reports the body was found July 3 on the Clallam County, Washington shoreline and identifies the kayaker as Lin 'Michael' Wang; the identification rests on that uncaptured follow-up and the incident record notes it accordingly.

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Web article, The Canadian Press via CBC News; no byline reporter named beyond the wire credit. Captured from CBC Lite (the low-bandwidth server-rendered version) because the full site blocks automated fetches; text verified complete against the page. One photo on the page (credit David Horemans/CBC), not archived; caption noted in the 02_articles md.

Record id 2018-06-20-cbc-nopage-beecher-bay-kayaker-search. Original file in the project archive: 02_articles/2018-06-20_cbc_beecher_bay_kayaker_search.pdf.

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