Witness Narrative by Lisa Cook on 2008-07-17 (okay to publish): The group had five people in it plus a guide. Ages of the rafters were 11, 17, 38, 40, and 61. The raft was in flipped fairly early in the trip (near the pinball area, but do not know the exact location since we are not regulars on the river, and we were in shock after the incident)and the entire group went for a swim. Three people of the group were self resued and made it to shore. Two of the rafters had to be pulled out by other boats. One of those swimmers went about 1/4 to 1/3 of a mile before beng pulled out. Rafters all suffered from exhaustion and difficulty breathing. The 11 year old suffered from minor shock diagonosed by his grandfather, who is EMT trained and was one of the rafters. Another rafter suffered from bruising and a pulled muscle on the upper right arm from swimming and hitting a rock during the swim. None of the rafters received any medical treatment from the guides. Four of the party had rafted this river before when water level was lower. AVA was the rafting company. They told the group water level was high, but that it would be fun. They never told the group that the river was under a high water advisory or that there had already been a death on the area of river they were going on. Person that booked the trip asked if the river was safe enough to take the 11 year old on and was told yes by the booking agent. Group did not want to continue with the trip after the flip. They wanted to walk out. Guides told them they could not, and that they would not let them. Group felt they were forced to continue to the first area where it was easy to bring in buses to pick them up. Guides added two gentleman from another raft to help get the group down the river. The group was too light and did not have enough power to paddle down that level of water.