VESSEL 1 WAS A 15 COLEMAN CANOE WITH 2 PEOPLE ON BOARD.  ON 11/9/2010 AT ABOUT 0800 HOURS OPERATOR AND PASSENGER LAUNCHED A 15 FOOT CANOE AT THE PEARCE FERRY TAKEOUT RAMP AND FLOATED / PADDLED DOWN RIVER TO PEARCE FERRY RAPID.  OPERATOR AND PASSENGER PORTAGED AROUND THE RAPID THEN BEGAN TO RESUME THEIR TRIP.  THE CANOE OVERTURNED BEYOND PEARCE RAPID PUTTING BOTH MEN INTO THE WATER.  TWO OF THREE PADDLES WERe LOST.  OPERATOR AND PASSNGER WERE WEARING LIFE JACKETS.  AFTER RIGHTING THEMSELVES THEY CONTINUED THE TRIP.  AFTER PADDLING ABOUT 12 MILES TO ABOVE ICEBERG RAPID OPERATOR REMOVED HIS LIFE VEST BECAUSE IT WAS "UNCOMFORTABLE".  AT ICEBERG RAPID THE CANOE OVERTURNED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RAPID PUTTING OPERATOR AND PASSENGER INTO THE WATER.  PASSENGER WAS ABLE TO RETRIEVE THE CANOE AND SWAM TO SHORE.  OPERATOR APPEARED TO NOT HAVE SURFACED AND WAS NOT SEEN AGAIN.  OPERATOR IS MISSING, HAS NOT SURFACED NOR BEEN RECOVERED, OPERATOR IS PRESUMED DROWNED.  NO DAMAGE WAS REPORTED TO VESSEL.
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