SMOKESKULL
Forum Veteran
Around year 2000 my wife and I and a group from her work went on a whitewater rafting tour at Well Grey park BC on Clearwater river.
It was a very hot day and I was wearing a supplied wet suit and life jacket. Some of us had left the rafts to cool off. Then the guide from my boat recommended I follow his raft. The others followed another raft on the other bank of the river.
Suddenly the guide says "if your not a strong swimmer you better get out" and I saw others still in the water on the other bank and thought it can't be that bad.
Suddenly I was caught in very fast moving water and being sucked under. I was kicking my feet hard to get to the surface but when I got to the top all I could get was a mouthful of water due to the severe turbulence.
I felt very panicked but knew I had to stay calm. It was all I could do to kick hard and spin myself around in the water so I was coming to the surface backward and was able to get small breaths before being violently suck back under in the fast current.
This went on for a few minutes and I was also bouncing off big boulders almost knocking the breath out of me. I had to keep the air in me.
I probably got sucked under 30 times or more before the rapids ended and the river calmed down. I could see the others on the other bank did not get in the rapids and the guide had set me up trying to drown me. When I got back in the boat I wanted to smash that fucker over the head with my paddle.
I should have sued that company but luckily I am still here and ya I can say I am a strong swimmer.
It was a very hot day and I was wearing a supplied wet suit and life jacket. Some of us had left the rafts to cool off. Then the guide from my boat recommended I follow his raft. The others followed another raft on the other bank of the river.
Suddenly the guide says "if your not a strong swimmer you better get out" and I saw others still in the water on the other bank and thought it can't be that bad.
Suddenly I was caught in very fast moving water and being sucked under. I was kicking my feet hard to get to the surface but when I got to the top all I could get was a mouthful of water due to the severe turbulence.
I felt very panicked but knew I had to stay calm. It was all I could do to kick hard and spin myself around in the water so I was coming to the surface backward and was able to get small breaths before being violently suck back under in the fast current.
This went on for a few minutes and I was also bouncing off big boulders almost knocking the breath out of me. I had to keep the air in me.
I probably got sucked under 30 times or more before the rapids ended and the river calmed down. I could see the others on the other bank did not get in the rapids and the guide had set me up trying to drown me. When I got back in the boat I wanted to smash that fucker over the head with my paddle.
I should have sued that company but luckily I am still here and ya I can say I am a strong swimmer.






