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Colorado River Fatality

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The embedded bit.ly link has more detail but still pretty thin. That stretch of river tends to be seen as innocuous and claims lives nearly every year. So sad.
 
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theirs a bad strainer after the walk way bridge low hanging tree and ahead of that a bunch of trees gathered, alot of people are just buying tubes and cheap rafts and not paying attention to whats goin on. rangers are even out there telling people to go right and around but everyone's a hot shot to bad shit like this happens feel terrible for the family.
 
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Local paper this morning said he had a pfd on, but he was in a tube (said others were in "rafts", but I'm thinking walmart pool toy type)and sounded like he had some physical limitations. With a real raft, strainers can still kill, but you have a lot better chance of avoiding them unless river-wide. Even a strong healthy person is going to have a hard time maneuvering quickly in a tube and a pfd doesn't help if you're trapped underwater.

The story also said the group had been down on Saturday and said the "60 foot tree" that cased the accident wasn't there. The river is so low now, I'd be surprised if that size of debris is still getting moved very far; not to mention the sheriff has been warning floaters about that area for weeks now.

So sorry for the family - it sounded like he was a nice young guy.
 
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