On Thursday, July 28, 2011, three individuals were floating and fishing the Boulder River in a rubber raft.  The raft ended up coming down a channel of the Boulder that brought them directly into the path of several downed trees across the channel.  All three occupants were ejected as the raft flipped.  The two male occupants were not wearing their PFD''s and and were last seen by the female occupant somedistance downstream alongside the raft just downstream from the railroad trestle.  The female occupant was able to get to shore and contact two male individuals to ask for help.  The Sweet Grass County Sheriff''s office was notified and SAR members arrived on scene approximately 1 hour after the raft had capsized.  With the assistance of and airplane the body of the operator was located sverel miles downstream from the accident site in the Yellowstone River.  The body of victim 2 was not located that day.  On Friday, July 28, 2011, SAR members resumed searching both Yellowstone and Boulder Rivers with the assistance of aircraft again.  The body of victim 2 was recovered that afternoon hung up in a log jam near the mouth of the Boulder River as it enters the Yellowstone River.
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