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