Nooksack River Fatality
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Topic: Nooksack River Fatality
Posted By: WA-Boater
Subject: Nooksack River Fatality
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 8:36am
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wash-kayaker-dies-on-nooksack-river/
Unfortunate news. Does anyone have any further on this?
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Posted By: Slackkinhard
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 8:39am
Terrible news....RIP
Is this the same sieve recently reported?
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Posted By: JoesKayak
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 8:45am
Some more news here.
http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/03/30/4215725/kayaker-who-drowned-in-nooksack.html - http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2015/03/30/4215725/kayaker-who-drowned-in-nooksack.html
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Posted By: rhoyerboat
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 9:28am
Yes. RIP. Can't say enough to praise the man.
I've been going on descriptions when making safety reports and haven't visited the accident site yet. I am under the impression this was always in play and that it hadn't necessarily shifted with high-water, was definitely after the more intimidating water and that this was quite a bit of a freak accident. Man falls out of boat laughing too hard and drowns under a log.
I really do need to go look at it first-hand, for safety and memorial reasons. Plan is to go with camera in hand on Thursday and get some clarity on the total river-scape.
FYI I am really not comfortable posting about this but realize that people need to know some details. I am a bit surprised that names and all made those articles, I guess I wasn't around when the reporters showed up .. probably I good thing, I may have snapped pretty hard.
.. I'll get the camera and document every hazard I found on the class III of the NF Nook - this was no doubt one of the least obvious.
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Knowing is half the battle, scouting is half the fun. ɯɐǝɹʇsuʍop ǝɯ ʇuᴉoԀ puɐ ɹǝʌo ʞɐʎɐʞ ʎ
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Posted By: imageAK
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 10:11am
In reference to your sentiment Andy, with not wanting to be too disrespectful & an accident hound. But also coming from several sports where accidents glean a lot into on going safety, is there somewhere to read accident reports instead of news articles?
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aint nobody got time for that!
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Posted By: rhoyerboat
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2015 at 11:18am
American Whitewater seems to have been more proactive about it a long time ago. Otherwise, I think the answer is no. Go Charlie!
I am working on the accident report. I still need to visit the site and speak with the other paddler who was on scene. Plus do my own processing about the issue, sort-of requires former two items. Please no more posts in the meantime.
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Knowing is half the battle, scouting is half the fun. ɯɐǝɹʇsuʍop ǝɯ ʇuᴉoԀ puɐ ɹǝʌo ʞɐʎɐʞ ʎ
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