This report is compiled from multiple news reports, both from West Virginia and from the victim’s home state of Ohio. At 10:30 am on Saturday, September 12, 2009, a five-person raft either tipped or flipped near the top of the class-5 Gauley River rapid named Insignificant, dumping all five occupants into the water. The guide, who worked for one of three rafting companies based at Adventure West Virginia Resort, made it back into his own raft, suggesting that the empty raft had righted itself. His four clients were all quickly pulled into other rafts. One of them, Eric Clark, 40, of Circleville, Ohio, was semi-conscious. The other three were in good condition. Clark was taken ashore, placed on a back board and immediately given CPR by two registered nurses who were also on river trips. He was transported by JanCare ambulance to Summersville Memorial Hospital with help from the New River Gorge National River Park Service rangers and local volunteer fire and rescue teams. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, from cardiac arrest. It is not known whether inhalation of water, or other factors, played a role in triggering the cardiac arrest. Eric Clark owned a civil engineering company in Circleville, 20 miles south of Columbus. He had a wife and three children, and was described as a prominent member of his community. His death was widely reported in news media around the state.