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In Devil’s Lake, Canada, authorities believe two men and a 5 year old boy may have drowned after setting out to go fishing. A search is still underway.

DEVIL’S LAKE, Alta. - The families of three missing Edmontonians - one a five-year-old boy - wait by the shoreline of Devil’s Lake as divers continue to search the water.

Hunor LaRose, 5, his father Zsolt Voros, 40, and family friend Kyle Digout, 25, have been missing since Monday.

The three had left for a fishing trip in Morinville on Sunday. Concerned family members contacted the RCMP in Morinville on Wednesday. The RCMP did not find anything around Morinville Lake. The family then suggested that the trio might have gone to Devil’s Lake in search of better fishing and deeper waters. A van and boat trailer were found there.

Not to add to the parents grief and suffering — I can’t even imagine what it’s like to lose a child, but there is a lesson to learned from this tragic ending. A toddler drowned during a family gathering. Although an accident, the sheriff states that there is nothing anybody could have done. He claims it all happened within a couple of minutes.

But, when a baby or toddler is near water, you can’t even allow yourself to turn your back for even 30 seconds. That is the lesson to be taught to all parents of young children. Small children and distractions do not mix. You can never be too safe. If a family does bring little ones around water, please have them in a life vest or some sort of floating device.

BEAVER — A 22-month-old boy drowned Friday during a family gathering at a home near Lake Pleasant.

Steven Neel, the son of Jennifer Daman and James Neel of Forks, vanished only minutes after several family members had seen him, and was found in Lake Creek about 50 minutes later.

“It was literally within just a couple of minutes — they realized he was missing, and launched a search,” Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrine said on Saturday.

“I can’t see a single thing that anyone could have done differently.”

Whenever I hear about people, especially children, being swept away by ocean currents, I think to myself that I never want to bring my children near a large body of water. I know it’s rare, but you have to have respect for the ocean. It’s much bigger than any of us. Tragedies like the following happen far too often…

A British tourist and his five-year-old son drowned off the Spanish coast after a freak wave hit while they were posing for pictures at a popular beauty spot.

The wave surged onto the Mar Menuda in Tossa de Mar in the Costa Brava at about 11am on Wednesday, just as a British couple paused to take pictures of their two young sons, five and seven.

To their parents’ horror, both boys were swept into the water, and their father quickly leapt into the sea to try to save them.