A 21-year-old Ste Anne man perished on Sunday at Great Falls Manitoba, just north of Lac du Bonnet.

RCMP say the young man struggled to swim after entering the water at a quarry across from Great Falls Dam.  Friends of the man attempted to help, however, he went under the water and did not come up.

Several bystanders assisted in retrieving him from the water and, according to STARS, local paramedics were already working to resuscitate the man when the air ambulance arrived on the scene in the late afternoon.

The man was taken to Pine Falls Hospital in critical, life-threatening condition by local paramedics where RCMP report he was pronounced deceased.