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Recent Posts in River Drowning Category

  • Commercial Diving Accidents

    Depending on the source you consult, it is estimated that there are from 3,000 to 7,000 commercial divers at work in the United States and in its territorial waters over the course of a year. These divers perform a variety of tasks from simple visual inspection of underwater objects to the construction of seabed pipelines that are designed to carry thousands of crude oil or refined petroleum ...
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  • Flash Floods, Forest Fires, and Storm Drainage

    The recent damages, and deaths, caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have once again reminded us that many deaths occurring during severe weather are the result of accidental drownings rather than trauma such as lightning strikes, fire, or collapsing buildings. In today’s post, the drowning accident lawyer at the Doan Law firm will review some of the circumstances that can expose us to an ...
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  • Ten Family Members Dead after Drowning Accident Caused by Arizona Flash Flood

    What began as a family outing in the high country of central Arizona on the afternoon of July 15th became a family tragedy when a flash flood smashed into a well-known picnic and swimming area a few miles north of the town of Payson. By Sunday afternoon, 9 of the 14 family members of Maria Rayas, including Maria and her 3 children, were confirmed as dead and her husband was listed as missing. ...
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  • "Willful" or "Deliberate" Negligence and Drowning Accidents

    As any drowning accident lawyer will confirm, most drowning accidents could have been prevented if someone had been more careful. Even though some drowning accidents are caused by the unwise choices of the victim, far more drowning accidents are the result of someone’s carelessness. In legal terms, what a layman calls “carelessness” is called “negligence.” When an individual (or business) ...
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  • Second Body Found Drowned in Creek

    A creek in North Dakota claimed the lives of two men, reported as drowning victims, recently. Police were initially called to the Apple Creek Country Club, a private country club, where two men were last reported canoeing. Police searched for several days before discovering the body of both men Cory Berger and James Hellman, both of Bismarck, were found dead and have been assumed drowned in Apple ...
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  • Teen Drowns on Camping Trip

    A 16-year-old Tennessee boy died while on a white-water rafting trip with other teens attending a popular Georgia camp recently. Andrew Silvershein, 16 of Davie, Tenn, was on the Ocoee River in southeastern Tennessee when the raft he and six other teens were on flipped in a part of the river rated as Class 3+ on a scale of 1 to 5. The other six teens made it to shore safely. But Silvershein did ...
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  • Man Found Drowned in Skagit River

    Reports say the body of a 61-year-old transient whose body was found in the Skagit River near a Mount Vernon, Washington park was a drowning victim. Jose Jimenez II was discovered by a city parks department employee earlier this month in the river, near Memorial Highway bridge, in the Edgewater Park area, reports say. Police are still investigating how Jimenez ended up in the river. Questions on a ...
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  • Three Unrelated Drownings Occur on Kern River

    Amilcar Guardado, 37, of Los Angeles, was found floating face-down in the water near the Keyesville north campground on the Kern River at the beginning of the month, making him the first of three to die on the river in one day. According to reports, Guardado was swimming in the Kern River near the campground area when he tried to pull himself out by a rock. He was unable to hold on, however, and ...
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  • Volunteer for Fish and Wildlife Drowns

    A Tulsa, Oklahoma man who disappeared recently while doing volunteer work with the Department of Fish and Wildlife in the Cimarron River, has been found drowned, reports say. Twenty-two year-old Tulsa Joshua Griffin's body was found in eight feet of water after a three-hour search by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and the Guthrie Fire Department. Griffin reportedly went under water around noon as he ...
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  • Body Discovered in River

    The body of an elderly white male was discovered in the Susquehanna River after when a boater from the Highspire Boat Club first spotted it. The boater called 911 and waited as emergency services arrived. Reports say that police were uncertain at last report if it was a drowning, suicide, or that perhaps he died from a medical condition and then fell into the river, post trauma. With lengthy ...
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  • Mother Drives Minivan into Hudson, Kills Herself and Three Children

    A mother of four young children drove her minivan into the Hudson River, killing herself and three young children. One of her four children, 10-year-old Lashaun Armstrong, was the only occupant of the car to survive. The youngster pulled himself out of the van's driver-side window, swam to shore and flagged down a passing motorist, Meave Ryan. Ryan saw a shivering boy by the side of the road ...
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  • Korean College Student Drowns Celebrating World Cup Events

    While celebrating South Korea's advance into the knock-out phase of the World Cup in Seoul, a 20-year-old college student drown in the nearby Han River. The Korean student, identified only by Lee, his last name, drown when he and four friends leaped into the Han River in Seoul to celebrate Korea's entry into the 16-team round after a 2-2 draw against Nigeria, reports say. Apparently, the student ...
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  • Oregon River Claims Another Casualty

    Walter Dines, 18, of Glen Burnie, Md., jumped from the high basalt cliff at Gladstone's High Rocks Park to join friends in the water, at the urging of older adults on the rocks. He struggled to swim across the cold, rain-swollen river, and began having problems immediately, reports say. Witnesses said when he finally reached the side of the river and tried to pull himself out of the water, he fell ...
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