Accident Database

Report ID#67870

1998-05-07
accident date
Patron
victim
0
victim age
Kaweah River
river
n/a
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
High
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Health Problem
cause code(s)
Heart Attack / Heart Failure
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Commercial
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

Lee and Charlie, I understand that a commercial rafting patron died on the Kaweah River in California on Sunday the 7th while on a trip with Whitewater Voyages. Rumor has it that this was a heart attack rather than a drowning. This was the same day as the Tuolumne drowning. Presumable the flows were very high on the Kaweah as well. Regards, Richard