Accident Database

Report ID#67993

2006-06-24
accident date
Alan Giles and Yaci Giles
victim
n/a
victim age
Ocoee
river
Middle Ocoee - #2 Dam to #2 Powerhouse
section
n/a
location
n/a
gage
n/a
water level
IV
river difficulty
Other
cause code(s)
n/a
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Commercial
trip type
Raft
boat type
status?
status

Description

Non-Witness Narrative by (name not provided) on 2006-06-28 (okay to publish): Near drowning. The raft went sideways through the rapid and turned over. We were caught under the undercurrent and the raft being impossible to emerge. After swallowing a lot of water and near drowning the water moved the raft and we were able to emerge between 2 sits having a small gap to breath but we were still drowning and couldn’t breath. In a desperate last move my husband was barely able to pull us out from under the raft. We kept rolling down the stream until we were able to hold onto a rock. We had no experience in white water rafting along with no sufficient instructions by the guide. We also were not informed about the levels of difficulty that exists in white water rafting, if so we wouldn’t have chosen a level IV river. We have hematomas throughout our bodies and also the mental trauma.

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