Ice in Saskatchewan is still too thin to walk on, says RCMP

Temperatures may be dropping, but Saskatchewan RCMP wants to remind people that ice on lakes, rivers, sloughs, ponds and dugouts in the province is still too thin to walk on.

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Corporal Jamie Diemert, co-ordinator of the Saskatchewan RCMP Underwater Recovery Team (URT), said in a news release that while many bodies of water freezing on the surface, there is still warm water below the surface that creates weak ice that is unsafe.

“It can break under the weight of a single person,” Diemert said. “If you fall in, it is very diffi