This map shows the sites of the search conducted by an underwater rover team in Baker Lake. Their rover covered 38 kilometres of the lake in 150-metre circles for some sign of 29-year-old Solomon Tulurialik. The search command centre was closed on Monday after days of land and water searches had no success. (Photo courtesy of the Heart team)
“It is with a lot of pain, but Baker Lake Search and Rescue has decided to close the search command post”
(Updated Aug. 14, 2 p.m.) The official search effort to find a young Baker Lake father, Solomon Tulurialik, who went missing in a boating mishap, is now over. Late Monday, Aug.
Kuujjuaq’s Mary Nikki and Etua Gordon play a giant game of tic-tac-toe at Barrel Beach during the kick-off of Jeunes Karibus’s summer program on July 18. The program offers Nunavik youth between the ages of 14 and 19 exposure to a range of outdoor activities centred on camping and the outdoors. (Photo courtesy of Jeunes Karibus)
Once Ocean expedition participants saw over 200 walruses sunbathing on Walrus Island in the western Hudson Strait on the morning of Aug. 4. Some leaped in and out of the water while others huddled together. (Photo by Emma Tranter)
Much of the ice has cleared from Koojesse Inlet, allowing Iqaluit’s sealift to take place, but on Saturday, Aug. 3, there were some lingering icebergs both on and close to shore. (Photo by Chickweed Arts/Jamie Griffiths)
A polar bear stalks a group of walruses on Walrus Island in the western Hudson Strait. One Ocean expedition participants watched from zodiacs early in the morning on Aug. 4 as the bear sniffed around the walrus for over an hour. Although the bear eventually turned back, the walruses were spooked enough to dive into the water. (Photo by Emma Tranter)