AS REPORTED TO AMERICAN WHITEWATER
Please message Charlie Walbridge with any corrections and omissions
JULY – DECEMBER 2013
Date-State-Name-Age-Boat-River-Section-Class-Cause
2013-11-25-WV-Gary Adkins-36-Open Canoe-New River-Sandstone to McCreery-II-No PFD
2013-11-21-WA-Alison Webb-54-Kayak-Palouse River–?-Solo Paddler; Hypothermia
2013-11-09-PA-Eric Metz-47-Open Canoe-Shenango River–?-No PFD
2013-08-25-TN-Katherine Luna-36-Comm Raft-Ocoee River-Middle Ocoee – Grumpy’s-IV-Flush Drowning
2013-08-24-TN-M, McGruder-51-CommRaft-Ocoee River-Middle Ocoee – Grumpy’s-IV- Health Problem
2013-08-24-MD-Lou Peterson-65-Kayak-N Branch Potomac River-Barnum to Bloomington-III-Heart Attack
2013-08-15-NY-Davin Harrison-20-Rental Raft-Delaware-Hancock to Port Jervis-II-No PFD
2013-08-15-AL-Alyssa Huffstutler-19-Tube-Locust Fork oR.-US 231/79 to Nectar Bridge-II-No PFD
2013-08-14-MT-Stephen Harrison-41-Raft-Stillwater River–?-No PFD
2013-08-13-WV-Unidentified Teen Boy-16-Comm Raft-New River -Gorge-IV+-Swim into undercut Rock
2013-07-27-CA-Dorit Hillmann-54-Kayak-McCloud-McCloud Reservoir to Lake Shasta-III-Swim Into Strainer
2013-07-26-ID-Maj StormoGipson-57-IK-Middle Fork Salmon River-Dagger Falls to Cache Bar-III-Strainer
To summarize:
12 deaths, 2 on consecutive day in August at Grumpy’s on the Middle Ocoee.
5- no PFDs
1- solo paddler, hypothermia
2- ‘health problem/heart attack’
1- flush drowning (at Grumpy’s)
3- river obstacles,
2- from strainers and
1- from an undercut (shudder)
Repeat incidents (this year)–
2 on the Middle Ocoee,
2 on the New
2 in canoes,
3 kayaks,
1 ‘IK’, which I don’t know what that is,
1 tube,
5 from rafts.
BE CAREFUL OUT THERE