bird dog
06-12-2006, 10:27 PM
With the accident at Petit Jean, it got me to thinking about all the reports that I read about accidents in the outdoors. I dont have stats. on hunting/ fishing/hiking but I do follow the whitewater sport, though I dont do much of it anymore, especially since we are in a drought for the second year in a row.
These cases are listed only to learn from the mistakes of others. Some happened at excessively high water and some could have been prevented with PFD's.
2006 Caddo River - Name deleted High Water is cited in boy scout’s death on the Caddo River swollen from heavy rainfall Friday and Saturday likely contributed to the drowning of a Little Rock Boy Scout during a Sunday canoe trip, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey indicated the Caddo River in Montgomery County was near flood level Sunday afternoon when delete drowned after his canoe tipped over. delete, who was 11 or 12, was with members of Troop 59 of Little Rock who had gone to the river for a canoe trip, according to the Montgomery County sheriff’s office.
2005 Indian Creek - Name deleted- Strainers caused several rafting deaths this year. Jeremiah Ramsey, 29, was rafting with three friends on March 28th when his raft collided with a strainer at a sharp bend on Arkansas’ Indian Creek. His legs apparently got caught in the pinned raft, holding him underwater.
1997 Cadron Creek - Name deleted- On April 5, 1997 party of five people in two canoes put in around noon on at Pinnacle Springs Bridge on Cauldron Creek. This Class I-II stream located in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas was in the words of news reports, a "flooded, log-jammed mess". Three people were in the first canoe: 38-year-old --------, his fiancée, ------ and son -------. -----was not wearing a life jacket.
1995 Cossatot - Name deleted. According to witnesses -------, ------, and their sons were floating the Cossatot Falls section of the Cossatot River in small vinyl rafts. Water flows were very low, estimated at 100 cfs. At 1000 cfs the rapids, the hardest run in Arkansas , compare favorably to section IV of the Chatooga. The raft overturned in the third drop, BMF. Both boys, who were wearing PFD's, made it safely to shore. -----, 38, swam for their cooler and was swept into the fourth drop, Washing Machine, where he caught his foot, was swept underwater, and drowned. -----, 39, made an attempt to rescue -----, then returned to the bank where he dropped dead from a heart attack! Neither adult was wearing a PFD.
These cases are listed only to learn from the mistakes of others. Some happened at excessively high water and some could have been prevented with PFD's.
2006 Caddo River - Name deleted High Water is cited in boy scout’s death on the Caddo River swollen from heavy rainfall Friday and Saturday likely contributed to the drowning of a Little Rock Boy Scout during a Sunday canoe trip, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey indicated the Caddo River in Montgomery County was near flood level Sunday afternoon when delete drowned after his canoe tipped over. delete, who was 11 or 12, was with members of Troop 59 of Little Rock who had gone to the river for a canoe trip, according to the Montgomery County sheriff’s office.
2005 Indian Creek - Name deleted- Strainers caused several rafting deaths this year. Jeremiah Ramsey, 29, was rafting with three friends on March 28th when his raft collided with a strainer at a sharp bend on Arkansas’ Indian Creek. His legs apparently got caught in the pinned raft, holding him underwater.
1997 Cadron Creek - Name deleted- On April 5, 1997 party of five people in two canoes put in around noon on at Pinnacle Springs Bridge on Cauldron Creek. This Class I-II stream located in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas was in the words of news reports, a "flooded, log-jammed mess". Three people were in the first canoe: 38-year-old --------, his fiancée, ------ and son -------. -----was not wearing a life jacket.
1995 Cossatot - Name deleted. According to witnesses -------, ------, and their sons were floating the Cossatot Falls section of the Cossatot River in small vinyl rafts. Water flows were very low, estimated at 100 cfs. At 1000 cfs the rapids, the hardest run in Arkansas , compare favorably to section IV of the Chatooga. The raft overturned in the third drop, BMF. Both boys, who were wearing PFD's, made it safely to shore. -----, 38, swam for their cooler and was swept into the fourth drop, Washing Machine, where he caught his foot, was swept underwater, and drowned. -----, 39, made an attempt to rescue -----, then returned to the bank where he dropped dead from a heart attack! Neither adult was wearing a PFD.