A 50-year-old Utah man was killed in a rafting accident on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado, National Park Service officials said Friday.
Federal officials learned that a raft was pinned on a rock in the Hell’s Half Mile rapid around 4 p.m. Thursday and that one person was missing and likely pinned under the raft, according to a news release.
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The group, part of a private permitted trip, were later able to unpin and recover the boat. The man pinned under the raft became dislodged. He was unresponsive and lost his life jacket in the accident and drifted down river, according to National Park Service officials.
River patrol rangers started down the Canyon of Lodore by raft to try to find the man’s body. His body was recovered by guides with a commercial rafting company 10 miles downstream at 7:45 a.m. Friday and taken to the Moffat County Coroner’s Office.
The man, a resident of Sandy, Utah, has not been identified until his family his notified.
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