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Report ID# 117038

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Accident Description

 
Jeff Papin Beaver Creek April 15th
 
MACKfest is a whitewater festival on 7 rivers in Eastern Ontario. Kinda like Canadian ALF. River is north of Kingston, Ontario. Small and fast.
 
Jeff was caught in a strainer that was partially submerged in a fairly innocuous narrower section of the river. I believe he swam into it but really am not sure. Our group arrived to see others performing CPR on Jeff but I understand he had been underwater a while.

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