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Canoe trip turns deadly for family in Washington State

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    Father, son die in tragic accident

  • Duration 1:16
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This is the -- 31 year old Sheldon Olson took out on lake limerick where this two year old son jays.

Giving his wife Julie a break for her birthday.

They were seen out on the lake in the canoe and then moments later they were seen.

Not in the canoe.

Witnesses say they were just a few hundred feet offshore there wasn't much wind and it was called Saturday.

But it was just in a tragic accident there were no really aggravating factors except for the fact.

That the father and the son both did not.

Have life jackets on.

The family had just moved from Portland to a home on the lake Olson recently finished up comic preschool and taken a job of the -- Wal-Mart.

A dive team from the Thurston county sheriff's office use sonar to search because the lake is so murky the water here is is very cold it's in about forty degrees right now.

So hypothermia -- said in very quickly almost immediately.

Investigators found life jackets in the canoe and want to remind everyone to always use them especially with kids be in an instant.

You know tragedy can strike in there's no coming back from.

Yes.

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