RCMP helped the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday (Aug. 14) to rescue 12 kayakers in distress in the San Juan Islands near the Canada-U.S. border.

Around 1:50 p.m. on Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard broadcast that six kayaks, carrying 12 people, including six children, were in distress between Patos and Sucia islands in Washington State, according to a news release from the B.C. RCMP's E Division Friday.

The federal RCMP's Shiprider unit, which primarily is for border patrol on shared waterways, was patrolling nearby and responded. They found the kayakers, and with the help of Washington State Park Authorities and the the U.S. Coast Guard's Shiprider unit, got the kayakers onto their vessels.

RCMP said that the officers learned that two families had gone out on an overnight guided kayaking to

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