Accident Database

Report ID#68025

2006-08-10
accident date
Kyle Rydell
victim
n/a
victim age
Deschutes
river
D. Benham Falls to Dillon Falls
section
Benham Falls
location
n/a
gage
Low
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Other
cause code(s)
n/a
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Private
trip type
Other
boat type
status?
status

Description

Non-Witness Narrative by (do not publish name) on 2007-02-27 (DO NOT PUBLISH): Floating on inner tubes, found rope swing and decided to swing from shore. Victim landed face first in the water and disappeared. Found 3 hours later in 8 ft deep water approx. 50 feet from where he was last seen.

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