A 46 year old Port Colborne man is facing charges after his boat sank in Lake Erie over the weekend.
OPP say more than 500 boats had docked for a party near Turkey Point and the boat, which police say was severely overloaded, sank.
Police had to rescue five people from the craft.
The boat's owner is facing a charge of operating an unsafe vessel.
The boat is currently at the bottom of the lake.