On Thursday 05/16/13 Operator1 and Occupant were paddling the Watauga River in a canoe. The canoe encountered a set of rapids at approximately 1630 hours between river mile 19 and 20. Operator1 stated that "he had never seen the rapids that ruff before". The occupants of the canoe tried to paddle through the rapids but were hit by a wave that ejected them from the canoe. Operator1 and Occupant were able to swim to shore but they were unable to find their canoe and the possesion that were in it.
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