Salt Lick is the area directly below Three Rock Falls Rapid. At this water level, Three Rock is a place where many flips will occur. The swim after a flip here is a rough one.
PFD will keep you on top but in big water like that you only have a few minutes of swimming and hoping to squeeze in breaths here and there until your body is totally exhausted and you start swallowing water. Based on his age he pry swam and became exhausted quite quickly. It happens to experts who are in great shape too.Anyone see any more information on what happened with this or Royal Gorge death this past weekend. Both sounded like people with PFD and helmets on. I'm always interested to understand better (and learn from) what happened when people had right gear and things still go bad.
Just saw a YouTube video yesterday of some gal that sent it in to 7News.PFD will keep you on top but in big water like that you only have a few minutes of swimming and hoping to squeeze in breaths here and there until your body is totally exhausted and you start swallowing water. Based on his age he pry swam and became exhausted quite quickly. It happens to experts who are in great shape too.