2025-06-30-Boise River–Does not Apply

Report ID#76944

2025-06-30
accident date
Unidentified Male Tuber
victim
n/a
victim age
Boise River
river
n/a
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
n/a
water level
N/A
river difficulty
Caught in Low Head Dam Hydraulic
cause code(s)
Does not Apply
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Private
trip type
Other
boat type
status?
status

Description

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Boise Police responded to multiple calls about a possible drowning on the Boise River near 9th Street and River on June 30, around 5:36 p.m. Officers arrived to find people performing CPR on a man. Officers took over CPR until Boise Fire and Ada County Paramedics arrived and took the victim to a local hospital. The man did not survive. According to a preliminary investigation, the man was floating down the river with friends when his single inner tube got caught on a tree, and he went underwater.