A body found in the waters off Oak Bay Sunday may be the canoeist who went missing early last month, police say.
Police received a call around 5 p.m. Sunday from a kayaker who found a body in the water near Tod Rock.
Police deployed a marine unit with a coroner onboard.
Sgt. Jim Hull said the preliminary description of the body matches the missing canoeist, Iman Bulghani, who went missing after a canoe carrying him and a friend capsized off Ten Mile Point July 6.
The friend, another Saanich man, was able to cling onto a rock and was rescued.
The two men, who were not wearing life jackets, had set out in their canoe from Telegraph Bay Cove about 10: 30 p.m., intending to camp on a nearby island. The rescued man told police the blue, fibreglass canoe sank after it was hit by a large wave.
The canoeists initially clung to a bag filled with camping supplies.
Occupants of a fishing boat later located a canoe near Race Rocks, at the eastern entrance of Juan de Fuca Strait.
An extensive search for Bulghani was called off July 7 after 13 hours.
