Accident Database

Report ID#66831

2009-10-04
accident date
Unknown Teenage Girl
victim
14
victim age
Chattooga
river
Section 4 - Route 76 Bridge to Tugaloo Lake Boat Ramp
section
n/a
location
1.75
gage
Low
water level
IV+
river difficulty
Caught in a Natural Hydraulic
cause code(s)
Near Drowning
injury type(s)
Other
factors
Commercial
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

Aapparently a 14 year old female guest of a commercial raft customer nearly died yesterday at Sockemdog. The level was 1.75 at the bridge gauge late in the afternoon. The story I heard was she was under in the hole for 2 min, came out not breathing and unconscious. It took a couple of rescue breaths and a compression to revive here. After the accident some people thought there might be a log or something in there after the recent flooding. This afternoon when I went past Sockemdog NOC was in there with a raft on a telfer lower, fishing for it. They found nothing.