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The RCMP underwater recovery team located the body of a 15-year-old boy who went missing after falling from a boat into the water at Turtle Lake.

The boy fell from the boat Tuesday near Kopps Cove “and did not resurface,” RCMP said in a news release. On Thursday, RCMP said searchers had found the boy’s body on Wednesday around 7:20 p.m.

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The other passengers in the boat were not injured.

RCMP, officials with the Ministry of Environment, the provincial protection and response team, and the underwater recovery team were all involved in the search.

Turtle Lake is approximately 240 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.