SUCCESS STORIES - NANAIMO BC - NOV. 14, 2020

Update: Found! More to come.

BOTH HAVE BEEN FOUND ALONG WITH REX, THEIR BLACK LAB

✖️✖️ NANAIMO COUPLE STILL MISSING - SEARCH & RESCUE HOPING TO LOCATE TRUCK AS STARTING POINT - VOLUNTEERS DISCOURAGED DUE TO SAFETY ISSUES ✖️✖️

The search continues for 32-year-old Cody Martin and 29-year-old Tamara Sandulak. The couple told family and friends they were heading to the Nanaimo Lakes area on Wednesday November 11th for a day of fishing and have not returned.

The couple were reported missing to the Nanaimo RCMP on Thursday November 12th and a search was initiated.

Dozens of Nanaimo Search and Rescue (NSAR) volunteers on foot and using ATVs searched late into the evening of November 12th in the area of the Nanaimo Lakes and Echo Lake. The search resumed at 7am today, November 13th. Depending on the weather conditions RCMP air support is expected throughout the day.

NSAR is hoping to able to locate the couple’s vehicle, described as a burgundy coloured Dodge Ram 1500 pickup with BC plate # NV9240.

“When the vehicle is located, it will provide a starting point which will be advantageous to the search efforts...” - Constable Gary O'Brien, Nanaimo RCMP

Investigators have also learned that the couple’s dog, a black lab cross that goes by the name of Rex is with them (picture attached).

NSAR and the Nanaimo RCMP are discouraging volunteers from assisting in the search or for media from attending.

“The area is actively being logged and logging trucks are a common site on many roads. It is also hunting season and the area has had several days of snow fall making driving conditions treacherous...”

Neighbouring SAR crews from Cowichan and Arrowsmith are expected to join in the search today. Martin and Sandulak are experienced in the outdoors and have frequented the area a number of times for fishing and to pick mushrooms.

Martin is 6 ft.4, 210 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a black jacket and tan coloured pants.

Sandulak is 5 ft. 6 140 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen wearing a black coat blue jeans or leggings.”

If anyone has information on their location, please call 911 or the Nanaimo RCMP non-emergency line at 250-754-2345 and quote file # 2020-41121.