| Hazard Codes: | Blast rock, Low Head Dam, High Water, Hydraulic/Keeper Hole, Man-made Debris Strainer, Pin/Broach, Rocks that cause blunt trauma, Natural Strainer or Sieve, Water Temp, Waterfall |
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| Initial Report: | Bouncing betty is a narrow slot drop with a rock outcropping on the right. A good portion of the flow goes under the rock outcropping and boils up in the pool below. The left side of the drop can be run with hard left angle and right to left momentum to avoid the rock outcropping. Derk entered the drop straight on, and without left angle, and ended up going under the rock outcropping and his boat was wedged upside down under the rock outcropping. The second paddler was in an eddy above the drop and did not see Derk come through and realized something was wrong. He got out of his boat on river right and ran down to the drop. He saw Derk's boat pinned in the drop, and the boat appeared to be upside down (ie head down) with the nose of the boat visible under the rock in the bottom of the drop. The second paddler got into the pool below the drop, was able to grab onto rocks that make up the drop and was able to get over to the boat and get a hand of the nose of the boat. The boat was wedged tightly and it took a huge effort for the paddler to pull the boat out after multiple pull attempts. When the boat finally came free, the boat washed into a recirculating eddy on river left with Derk still upside down and unconcious. The eddy he washed into was on the other side of the river from the rescuer and a strong jet of current separated them. The second paddler then ran back up to his boat above the drop, ferried across the river, and got down to the eddy. The eddy has steep rock walls and the rescuer had to grab the boat and haul Derk out of the water and up several feet onto the bank. After the rescuer got Derk, still in his boat, out of the water, he pulled him out of the boat and started CPR. Derk was unresponsive after continued CPR. It should be noted that the pin potential of the drop is more pronounced at low water as the slot fills in more at higher water.
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