May 6, 2007
Kansas City, Missouri
Photographer states :: Over flowing in Kansas City - Can you spot the tire?
This is called a whirlpool. This is not the natural course of the waterway with extra water. It is extremely dangerous and MOSTLY deadly. Some would call it a form of 'White Water' (click here), not so. This is uncharted and undetermined in it's capacity to kill.
MULE CREEK CANYON, Oregon (CNN) -- Fifty people have drowned this year in accidents during trips down whitewater rivers in the United States, where state-by-state safety laws can be spotty.
The 50 deaths this summer are approaching the recent high of 57 in 2003, according to the nonprofit American Whitewater organization's Web site. It's the third time in the past 12 years that 50 or more people have died in whitewater accidents in the United States.
Fewer than half the states where victims have died on commercial rafting trips in the past four years have laws or regulations requiring people to wear life jackets on whitewater rivers.
Other states mandate that jackets be on board, but do not require passengers to wear them, CNN found in an informal state-by-state survey.
Oregon leads the nation with eight drowning deaths this summer, despite a law that went into effect this year that requires life jackets be worn and a rescue rope be present on every guided excursion through rough waters.
Julia Clark's father drowned in Mule Creek Canyon on the Rogue River when a fishing boat overturned in swirling waters in autumn 2002.
The 50 deaths this summer are approaching the recent high of 57 in 2003, according to the nonprofit American Whitewater organization's Web site. It's the third time in the past 12 years that 50 or more people have died in whitewater accidents in the United States.
Fewer than half the states where victims have died on commercial rafting trips in the past four years have laws or regulations requiring people to wear life jackets on whitewater rivers.
Other states mandate that jackets be on board, but do not require passengers to wear them, CNN found in an informal state-by-state survey.
Oregon leads the nation with eight drowning deaths this summer, despite a law that went into effect this year that requires life jackets be worn and a rescue rope be present on every guided excursion through rough waters.
Julia Clark's father drowned in Mule Creek Canyon on the Rogue River when a fishing boat overturned in swirling waters in autumn 2002.
