RedactedNarrative: On 4/7/2013, at about 12:30 p.m. 3 kayakers were kayaking from Headworks to Kanaskat-Palmer on the Green River in King County, WA. River flow was reported at 2830 cfs. All kayakers in the party wore type III kayak PFDs and helmets. At river mile 57.25 they stopped to scout the "Railroad Drop" (a small rock weir creating a low head reversal river hydraulic). 
  
  Victim took her kayak , a 2010, 8' Force, Big Dog plastic kayak, down the river second after Witness1. According to Witness2 and Witness1 when she went over the drop she rolled in the hydraulic. Victim righted herself and seemed to lose power in her stroke. Witness2 threw her a rescue line but she was unable to grasp it. As she came out of the hydraulic she overturned and fell out of the kayak. Victim struggled to swim and hang on to the kayak. Just downstream from there she was floating face down. 
  
  At river mile 57 (Palmer Bridge) other kayakers were able to get Victim and pull her to river right and pull her out of the river. Victim was unresponsive and CPR was started. Victim was transported by Medics to Valley Medical Center in Renton, WA. She was later pronounced deceased. 
  
  No injuries/ One fatality 
  There was no apparent alcohol involvement. 
  There was no damage reported to the vessel. 
  The deceased was wearing a Type III USCG approved PFD. 
  Victim did not have a mandatory Boater Education Card. 
  There were no Rules of the Road violations.
NameOfBodyOfWater: Green River
NearestCityTown: Ravensdale