Accident Database

Report ID#65218

2003-05-11
accident date
Ryan Corrigan
victim
21
victim age
Androscoggin River
river
n/a
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
n/a
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Caught in Low Head Dam Hydraulic
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
Other, Inexperience
factors
Private
trip type
Whitewater Kayak
boat type
status?
status

Description

A run over a low-head dam on the Androscoggin River in Northern New Hampshire proved to be a fatal mistake on May 11th. According to an article in the Manchester, NH Union Leader, two out of a group of three kayakers elected to run a dam about a half-mile north of the junction of Routes 16 and 2 in Gorham. Neither man was wearing a life vest. Both men capsized at the bottom. One man made it ashore, but Ryan Corrigan, 21, disappeared. He was paddling a boat that he’d bought only two days earlier. http://tinyurl.com/avaqo