Bad river to run without a lifejacket

[Rick Smith]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/06/28/body-sandy-man-recovered-after/

 

 

 

 

Salt Lake (UT) Tribune

Friday, June 28, 2024, 9:11 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Body of Sandy man recovered after Green River rafting accident in Colorado

A commercial rafting company said it found the man’s body 10 miles downstream from the accident site.

By Jeff Tavss | Fox 13 News

  

 

 

 

DINOSAUR, Colo. — The body of a Sandy resident was discovered Friday in Colorado’s Green River. one day after he went missing following a rafting accident in Dinosaur National Monument.

National Park Service officials said the 50-year-old man was on a private permitted trip on the river when staff members were notified of a boat pinned on a rock in the Hells Half Mile rapids, a class III/IV rapid.

One person was found to be missing from the raft and believed to be under the watercraft. When the group was later able to secure the boat, the unresponsive man was discovered before he drifted downriver without a lifejacket.

 

 

 

Rick Smith

5264 N. Fort Yuma Trail

Tucson, AZ 85750

505-259-7161

Rsmit...@comcast.net

 

[Denny Huffman]

I know this place well, but it's unclear if he was not wearing his PFD at all or it was ill fitted and was pulled off during the ordeal.  Both unfortunate.  

Denny

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