A town is in mourning, after two men died in a snowmobile accident on the Burin Peninsula on Saturday.

RCMP said they were alerted around 6:15 a.m. Saturday that the men, 27 and 31, were overdue from a snowmobile trip.

The men, who were both from Marystown, had last been seen travelling on one snowmobile about two hours earlier.

Search now concluded. Both victims recovered. Sincere condolences to the families of those involved. —@BPGSAR

A local ground search and rescue crew, members of the Marystown and Burin fire departments, officers with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and local residents took part in the intensive search.

Police said their bodies were discovered in the water, approximately two kilometres from where a track suggested a snowmobile had fallen through thin ice.

'Good young men, good workers'

The bodies of two men from Marystown were recovered following an intensive search on Saturday on the Burin Peninsula. Marystown Mayor Sam Synard said the emotions involved because of the deaths have rippled across the Burin Peninsula.

He said both men were born, raised, schooled and lived in the area their entire lives.

"[They were] good young men, good workers, they had good jobs, you know, involved in long-term relationships with their girlfriends," he said.

"They were very much engaged in the community and had a large circle of friends as well … the community grieves along with the families."

A 'treacherous' area with 'severe' tides

Synard said the area where the accident happened is known to be a sometimes difficult place to navigate on a snowmobile, adding that he remembers a friend who died in the same area about ten years ago.

Marystown Mayor Sam Synard said the men who died had always lived in the town. (CBC) "There is a severe tide action there, I have skidooed there many times myself," said Synard.

"An acquaintance of mine drowned there probably ten years ago in a very similar location in a Ski-Doo accident as well."

"I guess in the night time if you can't see where you are going, if it is blustery, snow squalls, it is easy to get disoriented on that stretch of ice. I have been there many times, trying to make my way back to my trail to my house was an adventure sometimes."

"It is an area that we know can be treacherous, but it is an area that we continue to Ski-Doo on," he said.

Snowmobiles going 'all times of day'

Synard said the fact that both men were snowmobiling between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. is not uncommon.

My heart as mayor, as an individual goes out to the family. - Sam Synard, mayor of Marystown

"Down in Marystown people Ski-Doo all times of [the] day and night, it is not uncommon to hear ski-doos going four, five, six o'clock in the morning. People have cabins and cottages that they go to."

Synard said when tragedies such as this one strike a community, it is "wonderful in some strange way that they can find the bodies."

"The RCMP … the ground search and rescue from Marystown, the Marystown volunteer fire department and the squadron from Gander need to be commended in their efforts for relocating the bodies so quickly,” he said.

Big Tks to Marystown & Burin Fire Depts and DFO who assisted in our search and recovery today in Marystown —@BPGSAR

"My heart as mayor, as an individual goes out to the family, the two parents and their siblings, it is a terrible loss and we just hope that they can find the strength and support to get through the process of grieving and the process of, if possible, [putting] their lives back together."

The search focused on the South West Arm area, where the men were last seen.

Police are not releasing the names of the two men at this time.