I'm glad you are ok, but what a terribly frightening experience!! Can you tell me about how the vests worked? Did you easily have the prescence of mind to pull the cord and inflate them? Do you feel a waist PFD would have been useless in your situation? What the heck kind of tube was it that pulled out all the way under water and into the river below? How deep did you go? What happened to your gear and the tubes? It seems like there should have been warning signs about such a strong draw.

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Jude
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