Draft American Whitewater accident Summary

DRAFT

American Whitewater River Accident Summary
January-June 2003

Date Victim's Name Age Boat River state Class Cause

2/22 Darrell Fleming 25 Raft Locust Fork River AL III
High water & Hypothermia

3/14 Matt Painley 19 K1 Lower Yough-iogheny PA IV
High water & Hypothermia
3/16 Richard Jensen & W. Sexton 55 & 56 K1 Cuyahoga River "Gorge" OH III
High water & Hypothermia
3/20? Arthur Bell & Homer Turner 72 & 67 Motor-boat Maumee River MI ?
Anchor in Current
3/27 Walt Given Canoe Kanawha River WV High Water
3/27 Stephen Bryant 58 Canoe Fowler River NH ?
Paddling Alone

4/13 Jeff Mayfield 34 K1 L. Big Sandy WV V+
Undercut Rock
4/25 Jennifer Lohnert 12 Canoe Potomac R. D.C. I
No PFD's
4/27 Lauren Orton 32 CommRaft Wind River OR IV
PFD came off

5/3 Jeff Ellis K-1 Shackleford Creek OR V
Caught in hole **
5/4 David Edrington 52 K1 Yuba River CA IV
Flush-Drowning
5/11 Randy Corrigan 21 K1 Androscoggin River NH VI
Dam - Hole Recirculation
5/17 Jim Rada 52 K1 Presque Isle River MI V
Caught in hole
5/25 Matt Bartley ? Raft Marsh Creek ID IV
Hit Head; No PFD&helmet
5/25 Vaughn Jones ? Raft Marsh Creek ID IV Raft Found **
5/26 Tony Cobb 42 Raft Chatooga IV GA/SC V
Entanglement with rope
5/31 Lynn Jinks 26 K1 Poudre River Narrows CO V
Paddling Alone

6/1 James Owens 40 Tube Cashe Creek CA III No PFD
6/2 ? Man 35 K1 North Fork Skykomish WA III
Flush into strainer
6/2 ? Man ? Raft Arkansas R. CO III ?
6/2 Obinna Okoro 17 Raft Delaware R. NY II No PFD
6/8 ? Woman 55 Tube Stillaguamish River WA ? Strainer
6/20 Kevin Loder & Danny Brodnick 24&49 Motor-boat Great Miami River OH VI Dam

Totals: Kayak 9, Canoe 3, Raft 7, Tube 2, Motorboat 4

Charlie Walbridge
American Whitewater Safety Committee
ccwalbridge.DeleteThis@cs.com

CCWALBRIDGE wrote:
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 > DRAFT

 > 3/27 Stephen Bryant 58 Canoe Fowler River NH ?
 > Paddling Alone

That in and of itself is fatal? I understand listing it as a
contributing factor, but listing it as the *cause* of the accident seems
rather tendentious...

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