Lynn Canyon rescue launched for 3 swimmers

Fire crews have rescued three swimmers nearLynn Canyon suspension bridge, after they jumped from rocks under the bridge, plunging six metres.

District of North Vancouver Fire Rescue crews were called to the area around 4 pm. PT when park staff noticed two men and a woman, described as beingin their late teens to early 20s, in distress in the water.

According to Asst. Fire ChiefJim Bonneville, fire officials lowered a rope into the water from the suspension bridge, but the three were already in the process of swimming away.

"They walked down to Lynn Creek a little further downstream where they thought these individuals would come out from swimming in the pool area," said Bonneville.

"They met up with them, checked them over, and made a decision to walk them back up the trail and handed off to care of B.C. Ambulance."

No one was injured, although the womanhadbecome concerned she may be suffering from hypothermia while swimming after the jump.

Bonneville is reminding the public that despite it being summer, the water in the area can still be very cold.

Initially, it was thought the group fell or jumped from the suspension bridge itself, which hangs 50 metres above the canyon.

The incident comes just two days after District of North Vancouver Fire carrieda woman out of Lynn Canyon park when sheslipped and fell off a steepbank, injuring her ankle.

The suspension bridge wasbuilt in 1912 when the park opened and connects hiking trails on both sides of the canyon aspart of theBaden-Powell Trail.

Google Map of Lynn Canyon suspension bridge