Extremely fortunate that someone was able to get to the scene so quickly.
Without help, the November water temp would have rendered the 2 survivors unconscious within minutes. RIP.
CBC:
A rescue official said Monday that the bodies of six people have been recovered from the wreckage of a seaplane that crashed in British Columbia's Gulf Islands.
The remains of five adults and an infant were found in the plane, which was submerged in 13 metres of water in Lyall Harbour off Saturna Island, said Troy Haddock, maritime co-ordinator for the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria.
The plane went down at 4:10 p.m. PT Sunday. The cause of the crash was not clear.
A female passenger and the pilot were rescued shortly after the crash. They were airlifted to hospital in Victoria.
The seaplane crashed in Saturna Island's Lyall Harbour, off the southeast coast of Vancouver Island, on Sunday afternoon. (CBC)Haddock said divers searched for eight hours before they found the wreckage of the seaplane.
"The reports that we have are the doors were open, there was some twisted wreckage, but that’s all the details we have now," said Haddock.
"The Transportation Safety Board will be most likely raising the aircraft and investigating further for damage and cause of the accident," he told CBC News.